Gallium
This is the front side of the game card for Gallant The Dragon With The Gallium Tipped Tail. Click the pic to take a look at all the fun info on the back. Use it as a memorization tool, a trading card or as science class prizes and rewards.
Gallant’s Story Coming Soon
Article – The Element Gallium https://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele031.html
Article – gallium-chemical element https://www.britannica.com/science/gallium
Article & History – What Is Gallium? https://www.vedantu.com/chemistry/gallium
Facts – About Gallium, History, and Uses https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/31/gallium
Facts – 15 Important Uses of Gallium (must know) – https://techiescientist.com/uses-of-gallium/
Facts – Elements for Kids-gallium https://www.ducksters.com/science/chemistry/gallium.php
Facts – Gallium Deposits – https://www.usgs.gov/news/technical-announcement/usgs-updates-mineral-database-gallium-deposits-united-states#:~:text=The%20largest%20gallium%20deposit%20in,36%2C500%20metric%20tons%20of%20gallium
Facts – Gallium and its surprises https://chemistrytalk.org/gallium-element/#:~:text=Gallium%20has%20the%20atomic%20symbol,aluminum%20and%20indium%2C%20especially%20indium&https://www.livescience.com/29476-gallium.html
Wiki – About Gallium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium
Article – Gallium Compounds in Semiconductor Technology https://periodic-table-of-patents.info/interactive-periodic-table-of-patents/gallium/
Article – punctuated-equilibrium https://www.theguardian.com/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/sep/30/1
Cartoon – Gallium (the dinosaur white board) https://www.mezzacotta.net/dinosaur/?comic=362
Article – gallium-is-a-metal-that-melts-in-your-hands https://www.discovery.com/science/gallium-is-a-metal-that-melts-in-your-hands
Links and Notes for Gallant’s chemistry inspired magical abilities:
Gallium melts near body temperature (Ch. 1’s “raw body-heat” crystallization, Ch. 6’s melting trinkets)
- Gallium — RSC Periodic Table — melting point 29.76 °C, right around hand/body temperature.
- Gallium | RSC Education
- Gallium — Wikipedia
- Gallium: Metal That Melts In Your Hands – Geology In
Gallium expands when it solidifies (Ch. 8’s climactic “expansion upon freezing” trick that cracks the containment chamber) — this is the standout real oddity, one of the few metals to share this property with water
- Gallium: The Metal That Expands When It Solidifies
- Gallium Expansion: The Unique Solid to Liquid Process
- Gallium — Science Learning Hub
- Gallium and its surprises — ChemTalk
Gallium in semiconductors/LEDs (Ch. 6’s gallium-nitride wafers, Ferrath’s “LED-magic”)
- Gallium nitride — Wikipedia
- Development of GaN-based LEDs and laser diodes — ScienceDirect
- LEDs: Lighting the Future — Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride
- Gallium Nitride — ScienceDirect Topics overview
Gallium-mercury alloys (Ch. 2’s “mercury-gallium amalgam” residue)
- Amalgam (chemistry) — Wikipedia
- Replacement of Mercury with Gallium Alloy in Dental Fills — ResearchGate
- The physical properties of a gallium alloy restorative material — ScienceDirect
Gallium’s real interaction with calcium/bone chemistry (Ch. 3’s “gallium and calcium interact in bone chemistry, in medical magic” line — this one has a genuine clinical basis)
- Gallium nitrate inhibits calcium resorption from bone… — PMC/JCI
- Gallium increases bone calcium and crystallite perfection of hydroxyapatite — Springer
- Treatment of cancer-related hypercalcemia: role of gallium nitrate — PubMed
General element/atomic-number reference (Element 31, periodic taxonomy framing)
- USGS: Gallium — A Smart Metal — good plain-language overview of real-world gallium uses (semiconductors, LEDs, solar cells)
- Chemistry of Gallium (Z=31) — LibreTexts
- Gallium — Britannica
Author Fantasy License:
The “neutrino-detection” and thermal-footprint tracking, crystalline-lattice “magical conductivity,” and species-wide dragon telepathy-via-element are invented flourishes with no real chemistry behind them — everything above backs the parts of the magic system that map onto real gallium behavior (low melting point, expansion on freezing, semiconductor/LED role, mercury amalgams, and the calcium/bone interaction), not the fantasy overlay itself.
