Talk:Liquid metal
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Gallium wetting abillity[edit]
Contrary to what was stated for the first tests being done on galliums wetting ability, Tests were done in 1988 with Gallium, Indium and tin (seperately) by placing them in a vacuum and removing the oxidisation from the liquid metals we could tell that it would not directly wet glass, but became a ball ontop of it. Furthermore this test was done based a paper written in 1963 called "Gallium rich films as boundary lubricants in air and in vacuum" who initially stated that it was not gallium that wetted glass, but it was the oxidisation of it giving the appearance of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.209.127.210 (talk) 13:41, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I am insufficiently knowledgable about LM and alloys to determine whether this article and Liquidmetal contain duplicate information and therefore should be merged. These two articles leave me very confused about the matter. Can somebody shine some light on it (the state of the articles—I'm going to use other sources to learn myself)? Thanks. ctxppc (talk) 02:11, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
- Right in the first paragraph of the lead of Liquidmetal: "Despite the name, they are not liquid at room temperature." HTH Paradoctor (talk) 08:43, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Corrosive properties of gallium[edit]
On this article the corrosive properties of gallium are said to be corrosive to all metals despite two which is later sourced by the "Liquid-metals Handbook" which i had looked into, more specifically the 1954 version which showed (pg.99-101), very much different data than the section of this article says.
The handbook inspects more materials and comes to the conclusion that many more metals are resistant to an attack by gallium than the section in the wikipedia article says. including stainless steel, Wolfram, Tantalum, Niobium, Molybdenum, Titanium and Lead.
--Futurama39 (talk) 21:44, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
Mercury[edit]
Who is calling liquid mercury "molten"? Doesn't molten refer to the liquid form of substances that are solid at room temperature? 174.103.211.189 (talk) 23:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)