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Is the global production so low because of how rare it is, or because there's not many uses, so the small amount of gallium produced as a byproduct of aluminum
by mcphage 3y ago
Is the global production so low because of how rare it is, or because there's not many uses, so the small amount of gallium produced as a byproduct of aluminum production is sufficient for current demand?
- rbanffy 3y agoThere might even be sources richer than 50 ppm for it, but bauxite is already mined for aluminium, so that part comes for free. For a while we imagined Gallium Arsenide would replace Silicon in HPC, but then Seymour Cray died and there was nobody stubborn enough to make it work.