Fun Fact: It is solid at room temperature but has a melting point of just 29 degrees Celsius, which gave inspiration for the title of a recent book on the periodic table, The Disappearing Spoon. In 1997, masked thieves broke into a physics lab in Russia and attempted to siphon off 60 tons of highly purified liquid gallium from a neutrino detector�a booty that would have been worth $30 million.