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ELI5: how is gallium made if it is not naturally found on earth?
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Gallium is naturally found on earth.

It just isn't found in a purely elemental form, but instead only in compounds.

Imagine if chlorine was never found as chlorine alone, but only as salt (sodium chloride). You could then make chlorine by extracting it from salt but it wouldn't occur in nature in its elemental form.