A metal with a silver shine,
but particular different.
Among with mercury in line,
a unique property element.

As Eka-Aluminium fbyMendeleev predicted
with properties very precise
the scientific world was conflicted
four years later recognition was his price

Discovered from Lecoq de Boisbaudran,
a sophisticated chemist,
and a French man,
with two more elements on his list.

Nine times the melting temperature,
it has the largest liquid state range,
if it is metal and pure,
this is already unique and strange

At roughly thirty degree Celcius,
this metal will melt in your hand,
its solid states complex and various,
even wetting skin in the end.

It can wet almost every material,
but not quartz or its own oxide,
sometimes desired, sometimes critical,
and it particularly dislikes graphite

Non toxic it is advantageous to mercury,
for example in a fever thermometer,
as it will not set free,
with an accuracity even neater,

the main use is as dopant,
in semiconductor application,
it is a precise band gap variant,
requires high purity realisation.

One is Gallium nitride,
for integrated circuits in cell phones
even better Gallium arsenide,
high quality technology or even military drones.

If you add Aluminium to the latter,
or Indium to the Nitride,
L.A.S.E.R make everything better,
from infrared to violet, the range is wide.

The violet one is used in Blue-Ray technology,
efficient optical data storing,
highest quality until streaming became a possibility,
nowadays discs are vintage or boring.

With Iridium and Tin,
Gallium is liquid below zero degrees,
used as a coolant, as water thin,
for high performance computing technologies.

Gallium for most people unknown,
yet fundament of cell phone or the smart age,
what it is capable of is not yet fully shown,
for sure, it is part of the modern life stage,

Medical treatment, Carbon dioxide reduction,
most of those are still under consideration,
and Gallium stems from byproduct production,
so it is basically a waste use application.

If you are unique, as Gallium, use it,
being extraordinary is a gift,
you will see how others will benefit,
together, clever, a diversity shift.