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Details of the latest developments are under lock & key, but World War II has been the making of indium: Indium is a once-rare metal that even in very small quantities makes soft metals hard, dull ones bright, and does many an odd job in stretching the supply of critical materials. It is silver white, malleable, ductile, soft, more than twice as heavy as iron, lighter than lead...
Although it was discovered in 1863, indium was strictly a laboratory curiosity until Dr. William S. Murray, now of Indium Corporation of America, went to work on it in 1924. At that time only one gram was available and it was worth considerably more than platinum. Dr. Murray found that indium could be extracted commercially from a zinc ore mined near Kingman, Ariz. Last year the potential supply was figured at more than two million grams (4,400 Ib.) annually, at a cost of about 40? an ounce. At the rate that it is being put to work, much...
Some new uses of indium...
...aviation and diesel engines, copper-lead and cadmium bearings with indium added are proving extra strong and highly resistant to acid corrosion of lubricating...
...silver-40% indium alloy has the same appearance as sterling but is more than three times as hard-a great advantage in the many industrial uses planned for silver...