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LITTLE is kaown of the occurrence of gallium in sea-water. Its presence was first detected by del Campo and Rodeja1. Bardet et al. 2 found it spectrographically, together with thirteen other trace elements, in water samples taken near Roscoff (Brittany). The only quantitative data so far published are due to Noddack and Noddack3, who found 0.5 µgm. of gallium/l. in the water of Gullmars Fjord, Göteborg, Sweden; this analysis can scarcely be considered representative of ocean water, since the sample was taken from a fjord which is likely to be contaminated by drainage from the land. Ishibashi and Shigematsu4 have predicted the abundance of gallium in sea-water to be 0.005 µgm./l.
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CULKIN, F., RILEY, J. Germanium and Gallium in Sea-Water: Gallium. Nature 181, 180 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181180a0
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