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A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element
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gallium
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Gallium is a chemical element. Gallium may also refer to: Gallium experiment, a neutrino detection experiment also known as GALLEX Gallium scan or gallium imaging, a method for the detection of infections and cancers Gallium3D , a software library for 3D ...
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n. A chemical element (''symbol'' Ga) with an atomic number of 31; a soft bluish metal.
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n. a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores [syn: Ga , atomic number 31 ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
metalic element that melts in the hand, discovered by spectral lines in 1875 by French chemist Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838-1912), who named it apparently in honor of his homeland (see Gallic ), but it has been suggested that he also punned on his own name ...
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These resonant tunnelling computer chips are constructed not of silicone, not even of the newest hyperfast conductive alloys, indium phosphide and aluminium gallium arsenide.
Laser transistors composed of atomic layers not of indium phosphide and aluminium gallium arsenide but of a monocrystalline diamond film were all well and good for high electron mobility (in fact, he was astounded that the Americans actually had perfected them) but, the Scoundrel knew, under the right circumstances they actually could work to his advantage.
The secret would be to make the hundreds of thousands of chips that would constitute the soul of the new computer not out of conventional silicon but out of a radical new material: gallium arsenide.
That is the miniature gallium arsenide photon detector, acting as a retina, and the surrounding banded area—.
He admitted that Aorangi badly wanted silicon, but pointed out that the materials for gallium arsenide, or boron and nitrogen for doping diamond, could probably be obtained from Kainu’.
Like Finn's, about a quarter of its brain was now made of silicon or gallium arsenide.
She went over to the nest of minuscule optical fibres connected to advanced gallium arsenide computer chips on a circuit board the size of the end of her thumb.
Monolithic microwave integrated circuits fashioned from gallium arsenide sped through thousands of complex algorithms that separated their armored prey from the snowy background of the German field, homing in on the tanks.
It's a highly specialized supercomputer that uses gallium arsenide CPUs and vector processing to analyze sequencing results.
Its a highly specialized supercomputer that uses gallium arsenide CPUs and vector processing to analyze sequencing results.
The only silicon and gallium arsenide at this spot is in the ground.
To achieve this acceleration, the LPS contains a state-of-the-art molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) facility to develop miniature lasers, optical amplifiers, and other components made out of gallium arsenide.
That is the miniature gallium arsenide photon detector, acting as a retina, and the surrounding banded area-sort of like a radial tire-is bioluminescent, and lights the area ahead.