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Great, now how does one convert Gallium oxide back to Gallium? No shortcuts here, need either abundant energy or abundant reactant where we can just throw away
by cat_plus_plus 5y ago
Great, now how does one convert Gallium oxide back to Gallium? No shortcuts here, need either abundant energy or abundant reactant where we can just throw away the reaction product. Alkaline minerals are example of the later.
- esyir 5y agoLooking at the gallium trioxide reduction, it seems that you can first reduce it to Ga2O with Hydrogen (water as byproduct), Gallium suboxide then decomposes into it's components at temperatures above 500 C. Feasibility of this is an exercise to the reader (I have no clue).
- scotty79 5y agoElectrolysis