: a silvery malleable fusible chiefly trivalent metallic element that occurs especially in sphalerite ores and is used especially as a plating material, in alloys, and in electronics see Chemical Elements Table
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Clinicians experimented with different radioactive payloads under compassionate-use protocols that allow seriously ill patients to have access to experimental treatments, using unstable forms of elements like yttrium and indium before largely coalescing around an isotope of lutetium.
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Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
Mongolia is an acute illustration of the geopolitical, environmental, and economic challenges facing mineral-rich nations seeking to benefit from emerging technologies, whether supplying indium for flat-screen TVs, rhenium for jet engines, or gallium for smartphones.
—TIME, 14 May 2024
Zinc, silver, lead, tin, and indium high grade outliers were constrained during interpolation on a per domain basis.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
Inferred Zinc Zone Mineral Resource of 31.2 Mt grading 4.21% zinc, 14.5 g/t silver, 0.2% lead & 45 g/t indium containing:
2.90 billion pounds of zinc;
14.6 million ounces of silver;
133 million pounds of lead; and
1,414 tonnes of indium.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
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Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
Mongolia is an acute illustration of the geopolitical, environmental, and economic challenges facing mineral-rich nations seeking to benefit from emerging technologies, whether supplying indium for flat-screen TVs, rhenium for jet engines, or gallium for smartphones.
—TIME, 14 May 2024
Zinc, silver, lead, tin, and indium high grade outliers were constrained during interpolation on a per domain basis.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
Inferred Zinc Zone Mineral Resource of 31.2 Mt grading 4.21% zinc, 14.5 g/t silver, 0.2% lead & 45 g/t indium containing:
2.90 billion pounds of zinc;
14.6 million ounces of silver;
133 million pounds of lead; and
1,414 tonnes of indium.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
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indium
noun
in·di·um
ˈin-dē-əm 
: a malleable fusible silvery metallic element that is chiefly trivalent, occurs especially in sphalerite ores, and is used as a plating for bearings, in alloys having a low melting point, and in making transistors
—symbol In
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