BaZnGa T-shirt design

BaZnGa (barium zinc gallide) is a ternary compound of barium, zinc, and gallium that was inspired by the saying "Bazinga!" from Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory television series.[1] It is a poor metal. BaZnGa crystals can be grown by adding gallium to a BaZn eutectic at 800° C and then cooling to 400 °C. Hot liquid BaZn is hard to handle because zinc vapourises and barium reacts with air. Next, centrifuging filtration removes the crystals of BaZnGa from the liquid BaZn. The crystals have space group I4/mmm tI36 with a=6.3652 and c=25.593 Å. The unit cell volume is 1036.9 Å3, with 12 formula units per cell. The electrical resistivity at room temperature is 2.5×10−4 Ohm·cm.[2]

Various merchandise has been produced with periodic table like entries of Ba, Zn & Ga, including clothing and mugs.

A substance with a similar looking formula BaZnGa10O17, a barium zinc gallate, is a barium ion conductor.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Watson, Tabitha (14 July 2017). "The big bang theory inspires discovery of new compound BaZnGa!". Chemistry World. Royal Society of Chemistry. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  2. ^ Jo, Na Hyun; Lin, Qisheng; Nguyen, Manh Cuong; Kaluarachchi, Udhara S.; Meier, Wiliam R.; Manni, Soham; Downing, Savannah S.; Böhmer, Anna E.; Kong, Tai; Sun, Yang; Taufour, Valentin; Wang, Cai-Zhuang; Ho, Kai-Ming; Bud'ko, Sergey L.; Canfield, Paul C. (12 December 2017). "Growth and characterization of BaZnGa". Philosophical Magazine. 97 (35): 3317–3324. arXiv:1706.09872. Bibcode:2017PMag...97.3317J. doi:10.1080/14786435.2017.1380861. ISSN 1478-6435. S2CID 54063182.
  3. ^ Imanaka, Nobuhito; Ando, Kazushi; Tamura, Shinji (2007). "An extraordinarily high Ba2+ conducting solid". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 17 (40): 4230. doi:10.1039/B707609F.
  4. ^ Yahua, Bao (August 2000). Synthesis, Structure and Optical Properties of β- and β′′-Gallates (MEng). McMaster University. Archived from the original on 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2018-02-11.

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