It had to happen...
The recent fidget spinner craze has inspired someone to
make one out of gallium...
The shame is that he had to melt down his
gallium LEGO minifigs to do it...
If you didn't know already,
gallium is a metal that has a melting point of 86 degF/30 degC. Your body heat can melt it if you hold it long enough. And unlike that other "liquid at room temperature" metal, mercury, it's nontoxic. I first heard about it from an Isaac Asimov science article twenty years ago.
PS: Your totally useless, random gallium fact of the day is...
While the official source of the name "gallium" is "Gaul", the old Celtic name for what is now France and some surrounding areas (the discoverer Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran is French), some believe that it also refers to Lecoq himself (Le coq=>French for "the rooster"=>gallus is Latin for "rooster").
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