De eerste grootschalige toepassing van indium was als deklaag voor lagers in zware vliegtuigmotoren tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Daarna steeg de productie gestaag omdat het in smeltbare legeringen, soldeertin en de elektronica goed toepasbaar was. Vanaf de jaren werd indium een belangrijk materiaal bij de . It is a post- transition metal that makes up 0. Very soft and malleable, indium has a melting point higher than sodium and gallium, but lower than lithium and tin.
Chemically, indium is similar to gallium and thallium, and . Sources, facts, uses, scarcity (SRI), podcasts, alchemical symbols, videos and images. Properties, sources and uses of the element indium. Need a technical or white paper ? The metal is very soft, malleable and easily fusible, with a melting point higher than sodium, but lower than lithium or tin.
Its colour is silvery white and it has a face-centered tetragonal structure. It is liquid over a wide range of temperatures, like gallium that belongs to its same group. Both indium and gallium are able to wet glass.
It was named after the indigo line in its atomic spectrum. The first large-scale application for indium was as a coating for bearings in high-performance aircraft engines during World War II. Continue reading “Indium”