Transition metal prevent d–d bonding, which again tends to differentiate them from the accepted transition metals. Mercury has a melting point of and is a liquid at room temperature. Transition metal In chemistry, the term transition metal (or transition element) has three possible meanings: English chemist Charles Bury (1890–1968) first used the word "transition" in this context in 1921, when he referred to a "transition series of elements" during the change of an inner layer of electrons (for example n=3 in the 4th row of the periodic table) from a stable group of 8 to one of 18, or from 18 to
Liquid metal solution slowly, producing gallates like [Ga(OH)], which makes the surface of gallium negatively charged and cations accumulated nearby, and thus the electrically charged interface forms into a uniform diffuse electrical double layer (EDL) . The electrons flowing internally from Al to the liquid metal preferentially deoxidate the oxidized gallium near the Al, which alters the distribution of the charges across the EDL, leading to the generation of a potential gradient along the liquid metal surface. According to Lippmann's equation, the alteration of the EDL induces an imbalance of the surface tension on the liquid metal. Following the Young-Laplace equation, the