After 150 Years, Scientists Have Finally Cracked This Gallium Mystery

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Scientists Have Finally Cracked This Gallium Mystery

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For over a century, the odd behavior of gallium - a metal that melts in your hand- left researchers with that “wait what” feeling, like their thoughts were messy or something. Its liquid surface structure didn’t really “care” about the normal molecular models, and this stubborn mismatch kept making a massive gap in material science. Now, a breakthrough team has, basically managed to decode gallium’s atomic storyline, at last.