What do you know about indium?
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Answer:
. Indium is widely used in industry as a component of speciallty solders. They are able to 'wet' glasses and ceramics and establish contacts to non-metallic surfaces. They make very low melting point alloys that are very usefull in cryogenic equipment. As a component in low temperature alloys, the indium is widely used in fusable links that turn on fire fighting equipment. There are a limited number of glass melting series that can incorporate indium into the matrix. I believe that there is a gallium-indium-X alloy that was the recipient of an award to replace mercury in tilt switches. Frequently, Indium has been used in display devices.
Indium (IPA: /ˈɪndiəm/) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol In and atomic number 49. This rare, soft, malleable and easily fusible poor metal, is chemically similar to aluminium or gallium but looks more like zinc (zinc ores are also the primary source of this metal). Its current primary application is to form transparent electrodes from indium tin oxide in liquid crystal displays. It is widely used in thin-films to form lubricated layers (during World War II it was widely used to coat bearings in high-performance aircraft). It's also used for making particularly low melting point alloys, and is a component in some lead-free solders.
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Answer:
. Indium is widely used in industry as a component of speciallty solders. They are able to 'wet' glasses and ceramics and establish contacts to non-metallic surfaces. They make very low melting point alloys that are very usefull in cryogenic equipment. As a component in low temperature alloys, the indium is widely used in fusable links that turn on fire fighting equipment. There are a limited number of glass melting series that can incorporate indium into the matrix. I believe that there is a gallium-indium-X alloy that was the recipient of an award to replace mercury in tilt switches. Frequently, Indium has been used in display devices.
Indium (IPA: /ˈɪndiəm/) is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol In and atomic number 49. This rare, soft, malleable and easily fusible poor metal, is chemically similar to aluminium or gallium but looks more like zinc (zinc ores are also the primary source of this metal). Its current primary application is to form transparent electrodes from indium tin oxide in liquid crystal displays. It is widely used in thin-films to form lubricated layers (during World War II it was widely used to coat bearings in high-performance aircraft). It's also used for making particularly low melting point alloys, and is a component in some lead-free solders.
for more information, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/indium...
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