indium
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Definition of indium
: 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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Nintendo will partner with Sharp to put the company's IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) displays in the Switch, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "What Sharp’s IGZO display technology will mean for the Nintendo Switch," 8 Aug. 2019 Officials told us it's basically the equal of a indium gallium solder on the new chip. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, "AMD's new Ryzen 3000 APUs give budget gamers an affordable taste of Radeon Vega," 12 June 2019 Green LEDs have twice the indium content as blue LEDs and are half as efficient. — Quanta Magazine, "The Math That Promises to Make the World Brighter," 6 Sep. 2017 Part of the screen assembly is a layer of indium tin oxide, a clear, conductive material. — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, "Things Come Apart: Facebook Portal+," 24 Mar. 2019 Demand for some metals like neodymium and indium could grow by more than a dozen times by 2050, and there simply might not be enough supply to power the green revolution. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need," 13 Dec. 2018 By 2050 solar panels and wind turbines will require around 12 times as much indium as the entire world produces right now, the analysis predicts. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need," 13 Dec. 2018 Thin is in The researchers focused on thin-film technology, which is dominated by two materials: cadmium telluride (often called cadtel) and CIGS, or copper indium gallium selenide. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Installation costs so much that it’s better to use expensive solar panels," 2 May 2018 Luminar's lidar uses indium-gallium arsenide sensors to detect return flashes. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Velodyne invented modern lidar—it’s about to face real competition," 19 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'indium.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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indium
noun
in·di·um
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Medical Definition of indium
: 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
— see Chemical Elements Table