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/ɪndˈɪəm/
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[ US /ˈɪndiəm/ ]
[ US /ˈɪndiəm/ ]
NOUN
- a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite
How To Use indium In A Sentence
- This article presents acid could be used to wash the indium bumps before flip chip bonding, based on indium oxide dissolved in acid.
- The fluoroanions of aluminum, gallium, and indium are novel weakly coordinating anions which are are highly fluorinated.
- These have an indium arsenide core surrounded by gallium arsenide and an indium-gallium arsenide alloy.
- Today, commercial solar cells have been capable of achieving a power-conversion efficiency of about 9 percent to 11 percent, though they are based on rare, expensive-to-procure elements such as tellurium and indium. Techworld Australia News
- The SRB has also been accumulating aluminium, zinc, nickel, and rarer metals such as titanium, indium (thin-film technology), rhodium (catalytic converters) and praseodymium (glass). Mike Griffin, I want to Teach, Money was not an Issue - NASA Watch
- The group III and IV elements (boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, carbon, silicon, germanium, tin), on the other hand, tend to form covalent halides.
- The same goes for many other rare metals such as indium, which is being consumed in unprecedented quantities for making LCDs for flat-screen TVs, and the tantalum needed to make compact electronic devices like cellphones. . . Photovoltaics: (some more) depressing news
- Dectecting little carbon in super pure indium at Chinese and international is still a blank.
- Lead alloyed with tin, bismuth, cadmium, indium, or other elements, either alone or in combination, forms alloys with particularly low melting points.
- Computer simulations designed to investigate the so-called indium/gallium puzzle have highlighted a new way of increasing the efficiency of CIGS thin-film solar cells. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories