@ZeQiR It was by weight, so 10 grams would be 6.65gram gallium, 2.05gram indium, 1.3 gram tin. I don't know if this is the right way, just the way I did it.
have you tried runing current through it yet? I had a small dish of it and used a couple AA bateries, there was a weird quivering and swirling effect on the surface. I was told that some cpu cooling units used this effect to self pump galinstan through a tube w/o a pump. electrical and magnetic feilds forced it to circulate... so have some fun messing with it and a battery. cant find any documents to suport this but i know out of experience it moves w/ current.
@bowiePPballistic gallium turns from solid to liquid at 29 degrees Celsius, gallinstan has a much much lower melting point at -19 degrees Celcius, so the gallium will turn solid on a cold day, but the gallinstan needs to go in the freezer to get solid again.
I read that Indium is toxic. I've thought of buying bars of it to sell on my site but I'm not sure about it.
Gallium is quite safe though. I have a kilo bottle of it in my cellar. It doesn't look like much to be honest but I've not played with it or warmed it up yet.
@Buycopper From the wikiped, "indium(III) ions can be toxic to the kidney when given by injection, but oral indium compounds do not have the chronic toxicity of salts of heavy metals"
yer this mixture and its base elements are safe to touch, gallium and galinstan are rather "wet" so touching it will leave a small amount on your finger, your fingers turn grey after handling it a bit and it rubs off on everything
Is the percentage by mass or composition
ZeQiR 6 months ago
@ZeQiR It was by weight, so 10 grams would be 6.65gram gallium, 2.05gram indium, 1.3 gram tin. I don't know if this is the right way, just the way I did it.
nvmextc 6 months ago
have you tried runing current through it yet? I had a small dish of it and used a couple AA bateries, there was a weird quivering and swirling effect on the surface. I was told that some cpu cooling units used this effect to self pump galinstan through a tube w/o a pump. electrical and magnetic feilds forced it to circulate... so have some fun messing with it and a battery. cant find any documents to suport this but i know out of experience it moves w/ current.
Demonchld666 10 months ago
@bowiePPballistic gallium turns from solid to liquid at 29 degrees Celsius, gallinstan has a much much lower melting point at -19 degrees Celcius, so the gallium will turn solid on a cold day, but the gallinstan needs to go in the freezer to get solid again.
nvmextc 10 months ago
I read that Indium is toxic. I've thought of buying bars of it to sell on my site but I'm not sure about it.
Gallium is quite safe though. I have a kilo bottle of it in my cellar. It doesn't look like much to be honest but I've not played with it or warmed it up yet.
Buycopper 11 months ago
@Buycopper From the wikiped, "indium(III) ions can be toxic to the kidney when given by injection, but oral indium compounds do not have the chronic toxicity of salts of heavy metals"
ERTLPFM 2 months ago
what would happen if you touched liquid metal like that with your bare hand?
bigchongo 2 years ago
its non toxic
feastluva222 2 years ago
yer this mixture and its base elements are safe to touch, gallium and galinstan are rather "wet" so touching it will leave a small amount on your finger, your fingers turn grey after handling it a bit and it rubs off on everything
nvmextc 2 years ago
dude can you tell me where you got that?
bdabeast05 2 years ago
it's made by mixing the 3 elements listed in the description, look on ebay
nvmextc 2 years ago