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by jhart99 1474 days ago
One really tricky part of this is going to be that gallium alloys or otherwise attacks a LOT of metals including aluminum and steel. Still should be fine in glass or maybe there is a passivation trick that can prevent gallium attacking the surfaces.

Otherwise platinum on carbon (and now platinum/gallium alloy) can do lots of useful reactions mostly hydrogenations.

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It was a fun experiment showing my kids what some leftover Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut did to a soda can.
Don't get that anywhere near your wedding ring!
I put some gallium on my aluminum car engine
No more engine.
Pt/C and Pd/C can also do super neat hydrogen rearrangements. Fascinating catalysts. Though they like to catch fire when in contact with air, annoyingly.
It also oxidizes really fast. Any time you see liquid gallium in a video it develops a nasty sticky crust very fast.