You will be asked if you have had any recent medical tests that use barium such as a barium swallow exam or CT scan. You typically go to the nuclear medicine department at a scheduled time to get the injection of gallium citrate.
You will likely get the injection in a vein in your arm. It may sting a little. You can then go home and resume your normal activities. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any reactions to the injection, such as prolonged nausea. Your healthcare provider will let you know if you need to make any changes to your normal medicines, diet, or activities. You might need to take a laxative for several nights before your scheduled scan.
You also might need to have an enema a couple hours before your exam. It may help to get a better image. It might be several hours to a few days later, depending on the reason for your scan.
You need to have your scan at exactly the right time. Reschedule as soon as possible, if needed. Your healthcare provider can tell you what will happen during your scan. In general, you might expect the following:. You usually can go home right away and resume all your normal activities.
The scan itself should not cause any side effects. The gallium will leave your body over the next several days. Your healthcare provider might give you more instructions. For example, drinking extra water may help flush out the gallium. Loki Prime Chassis. Mesa Prime Chassis. Mirage Chassis. Nami Skyla. Nezha Systems. Nova Slipstream Helmet. Nyx Prime Chassis. Oberon Chassis. Oberon Prime Chassis. Oberon Systems. Rhino Systems. Thaumic Distillate x Twin Krohkur.
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He named it gallium after the Latin name for France, "Gallia. But four years before Boisbaudran's discovery, the famed Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev predicted gallium's existence. Mendeleev, known as the "father of the periodic table," saw that there was a gap in the table after aluminum, so he posited that a missing element he called "eka-aluminum" would share many of the properties of aluminum, but with a different atomic structure. Mendeleev was right, but he couldn't have predicted how gallium's unusual qualities — somewhere between a metal and a nonmetal — would make it ideal for modern electronics.
Here's another cool and somewhat bizarre fact about gallium: While it melts at just That earns gallium the award for maintaining the longest liquid phase of any element. But why does that happen? Gallium doesn't know if it wants to be a metal or a nonmetal. Gallium's dual personality stems from where it sits on the periodic table among two groups called the "metalloids" and the "post-transition metals.
Like silicon, gallium is a good conductor of electricity, but not a great one. That's what makes both of these metalloids prime candidates for semiconductors, where the flow of electricity needs to be controlled. Using current manufacturing processes, a wafer of gallium arsenide, the most popular gallium-based semiconductor material, is roughly 1, times more expensive than a silicon wafer. Even though gallium is much more expensive than silicon, it's become a popular semiconductor material in the latest generations of smartphones.
Smartphones communicate with cellular data networks using radio frequency RF chips, and RF chips made with gallium arsenide give off less heat than silicon and can operate at higher frequency bands, a requirement for 5G networks. A little more than 70 percent of all the gallium consumed in the U. But one of the coolest applications of gallium is in light-emitting diodes LEDs , which are now used in everything from computer displays to traffic lights to luxury car headlights.
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