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Gallium is a chemical element; it has the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. Discovered by the French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875, [13] gallium is in group 13 of the periodic table and is similar to the other metals of the group (aluminium, indium, and thallium).
Compounds containing Ga–Ga bonds are true gallium(II) compounds, such as GaS (which can be formulated as Ga 2 4+ (S 2−) 2) and the dioxan complex Ga 2 Cl 4 (C 4 H 8 O 2) 2. [1] There are also compounds of gallium with negative oxidation states, ranging from -5 to -1, most of these compounds being magnesium gallides (Mg x Ga y ).
Gallium is very different from indium in that it is only known to form 6 coordinate complexes with the fluoride ion. This can be rationalised by the smaller size of gallium (ionic radii of Ga(III) 62 pm, In(III) 80 pm). Salts containing the Ga 2 Cl 6 2− anion, where gallium has an oxidation state of +2, are known.
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Gallane, also systematically named trihydridogallium, is an inorganic compound of gallium with the chemical formula GaH 3 (also written as [GaH 3]).It is a photosensitive, colourless gas that cannot be concentrated in pure form.
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Gallium nitride (Ga N) is a binary III/V direct bandgap semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes since the 1990s. The compound is a very hard material that has a Wurtzite crystal structure .
The shorter-lived gallium-68 (half-life 68 minutes) is a positron-emitting isotope generated in very small quantities from germanium-68 in gallium-68 generators or in much greater quantities by proton bombardment of 68 Zn in low-energy medical cyclotrons, [4] [5] for use in a small minority of diagnostic PET scans.