Element Samples

High-purity element samples for collectors, teachers, researchers and anyone assembling a periodic table display.

We stock indium (99.995%), germanium (99.999%) and magnesium ribbon, held in Perth and shipped Australia-wide. These are the same materials we supply to laboratories, not novelty offcuts: purity is stated, a Safety Data Sheet is supplied with every order, and certificates of analysis are available on request for institutional buyers.

Indium is a soft, silvery post-transition metal that screams audibly when bent — the ‘tin cry’. It is used in low-melting alloys, cryogenic seals and thermal interface materials. Germanium is a hard, brittle, lustrous metalloid, historically the material that made the first transistors possible and still central to infrared optics. Magnesium ribbon is a school laboratory staple, burning with the brilliant white flame most people remember from Year 8 chemistry.

Buying element samples in Australia usually means importing them, which means customs, freight and weeks of waiting. We hold stock locally and ship within Australia.

Quotes and purchase orders welcome from schools, universities and government buyers.