thereelstory
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4N,3N,2N gallium
on one website, it says these all are 99.99 pure. so my question, stupid as it may be, is:
if the N stands for NORMALTY, what is the difference if the purity is the same.
thanks in advaNCE.
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2N = 99%, 'N' = "nines". If it's actually 99.99%, they slipped up...is it cheaper?
If it were normality, I wonder what it would be diluted by! Gallium is 5.91 g/cm^3 and 69.723 g/mol,
http://www.google.com/search?q=5.91+g%2Fcm^3+%2F+69.723+g%2F...
84.7M. So whatever it's diluted by, 2 Normal would be about 2.5% (depending on how many bonds you count gallium's normality as).
Tim
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2N should be 99.99% purity and 3N should be 99.999%@12AX7; I can't get anything else out of it. Why didn't you link us to the page?
"When you let the dumbasses vote you end up with populism followed by autocracy and getting back is a bitch." Plato (sort of)
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No. 2N is 99%, 3N5 is 99.95%, and 6N is 99.9999%.
People seem to have a gallium fixation these days :-0
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thereelstory
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thanks, todos.
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What would the impurities in Ga metal be? Most likely Al, because most Ga produced is obtained as a by-product of the refining by alkaline dissolution
of bauxite into pure alumina.
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