Gallium
error in units
Submitted by Christopher Crawford on 16 January 2008 - 1:26pm.- The periodic table and the elements
- Actinium
- Aluminium
- Americium
- Antimony
- Argon
- Arsenic
- Astatine
- Barium
- Berkelium
- Beryllium
- Bismuth
- Bohrium
- Boron
- Bromine
- Cadmium
- Caesium
- Calcium
- Californium
- Carbon
- Cerium
- Chlorine
- Chromium
- Cobalt
- Copernicium
- Copper
- Curium
- Darmstadtium
- Dubnium
- Dysprosium
- Einsteinium
- Erbium
- Europium
- Fermium
- Fluorine
- Francium
- Gadolinium
- Gallium
- Germanium
- Gold
- Hafnium
- Hassium
- Helium
- Holmium
- Hydrogen
- Indium
- Iodine
- Iridium
- Iron
- Krypton
- Lanthanum
- Lawrencium
- Lead
- Lithium
- Lutetium
- Magnesium
- Manganese
- Meitnerium
- Mendelevium
- Mercury
- Molybdenum
- Neodymium
- Neon
- Neptunium
- Nickel
- Niobium
- Nitrogen
- Nobelium
- Osmium
- Oxygen
- Palladium
- Phosphorus
- Platinum
- Plutonium
- Polonium
- Potassium
- Praseodymium
- Promethium
- Protactinium
- Radium
- Radon
- Rhenium
- Rhodium
- Roentgenium
- Rubidium
- Ruthenium
- Rutherfordium
- Samarium
- Scandium
- Seaborgium
- Selenium
- Silicon
- Silver
- Sodium
- Strontium
- Sulphur
- Tantalum
- Technetium
- Tellurium
- Terbium
- Thallium
- Thorium
- Thulium
- Tin
- Titanium
- Tungsten
- Unbibium
- Unbiennium
- Unbihexium
- Unbinilium
- Unbioctium
- Unbipentium
- Unbiquadium
- Unbiseptium
- Unbitrium
- Unbiunium
- Unhexbium
- Unhexhexium
- Unhexnilium
- Unhexpentium
- Unhexquadium
- Unhexseptium
- Unhextrium
- Unhexunium
- Unpentbium
- Unpentennium
- Unpenthexium
- Unpentnilium
- Unpentoctium
- Unpentpentium
- Unpentquadium
- Unpentseptium
- Unpenttrium
- Unpentunium
- Unquadbium
- Unquadennium
- Unquadhexium
- Unquadnilium
- Unquadoctium
- Unquadpentium
- Unquadquadium
- Unquadseptium
- Unquadtrium
- Unquadunium
- Untribium
- Untriennium
- Untrihexium
- Untrinilium
- Untrioctium
- Untripentium
- Untriquadium
- Untriseptium
- Untritrium
- Untriunium
- Ununennium
- Ununhexium
- Ununoctium
- Ununpentium
- Ununquadium
- Ununseptium
- Ununtrium
- Uranium
- Vanadium
- Xenon
- Ytterbium
- Yttrium
- Zinc
- Zirconium
The units of resistivity don't come out right.
10^-8 Ohm * m
or
m Ohm * cm
the 'm' should be a 'mu', but unfortunately they both look the same in the latin alphabet.

Spanish Post Office honours Mendeleev
Submitted by WebElements on 19 March 2007 - 8:38pm.

This stamp commemorates the death of Mendeleev (February 1907), one of the lead figures responsible for the periodic table. Absolutely excellent choice of colours if I might say so! The stamp was sent to me by Prof Gabriel Pinto (Departamento de Ingeniería Química Industrial, ETSI Industriales, UPM, Madrid, Spain) and I quote from his web page:

Gallium Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria
Submitted by WebElements on 18 March 2007 - 7:49am.An article in the Journal of Clinical Investigation outlines how a new antimicrobial approach kills bacteria in laboratory experiments and eliminate life-threatening infections in mice by interfering with a key bacterial nutrient. Iron is critical for the growth of bacteria and for their ability to form biofilms, slime-encased colonies of microbes that cause many chronic infections. "Gallium acts as a Trojan horse to iron-seeking bacteria," said Pradeep Singh (senior author). "Because gallium looks like iron, invading bacteria are tricked, in a way, into taking it up.

Liquid Magnets
Submitted by David Bradley on 1 October 2005 - 7:44pm.Nickel gallium sulfide (NiGa2S4) behaves as a highly unusual "liquid" magnetic material at near absolute zero, according to Japanese and US researchers. Read David Bradley's spin on the work in his chemistry news column.
