Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Okay, it’s a chemical element-they’re created perfectly by nature. Beyond that: Gallium causes almost all metals to corrode on contact. Do let this touch any metals. Gallium will also ‘wet’ glass and quarts—meaning it will stain glass. It also leaves a ‘fuel-oil’ smell and silvery stain on your hands which comes off with soap and water. Yes, after playing with this your hands look and smell like you’ve been working on your car’s engine for a while—but it cleans off your skin easier than car oil/grease. For cleanliness, not really safety, you’ll probably want to wear gloves. Don’t let it touch metal, don’t let it touch your wristwatch, don’t let it touch any metal sink components. Don’t let it touch glass. Basically, you’ll probably want to find an easier container to keep this in: maybe a small Tupperware type thing with a wide lid so you can remove it, put it in a ziplock to heat under hot water and return to the Tupperware to play with. Put the cap on the bottle, put it in an inch of HOT water and let it sit there for a while. It will turn to a liquid and then you can pour it out. It’s a liquid metal much like Mercury. Lots of fun. Magicians buy spoon-molds to mold this stuff into spoons. Yep, that’s how the old ‘disappearing spoon’ trick works: they just melt it in their hand or melt it into a glass of hot water. Viola! Mine arrived (to Detroit in less than 2 days) in a small pharmaceutical ‘pill’ bottle. Like travel sized pain reliever bottles. It was cold so it was solid. After having the bottle sit in hot water for a quite a while it turned to liquid. I had other things to do and left it (not in the hot water anymore) and it stayed liquid for about an hour or so! I poured it into a ziplock bag: after becoming a solid again in the ziplock bag it only takes a minute or two under running hot water to re-melt it. So, don’t let it touch anything you don’t want stained. Get a plastic tub container to keep it in. Heat it in a ziplock bag for faster melting. Wash your hands afterwards. 20oz is a decent little hunk to play with. Actually, I wouldn’t want any more. In fact I may have bought the 10oz version and been totally happy: liquid metal is hard to keep a hold it and a tad messy, even in solid form so less is probably best. 20oz fills the palm of a person’s hand really well enough. It only takes 14g to mold a ‘disappearing spoon’. I'm posting a photo of it melted in the corner of a ziplock bag for size. If you're just playing around-this is more than enough. Wow, that was a long review for a chemical element, lol! -mike from Detroit