Crystals of 99.999% gallium Named by its discovererLecoq , afterLatin Gallia ( “ Gaul ” ) . It was claimed that Lecoq had named the element after himself, sincegallus is the Latin translation of theFrench lecoq , but Lecoq denied this in an article of 1877.
gallium (uncountable )
A chemical element (symbol Ga) with anatomic number of 31; a soft bluish metal.Synonym: ( name given byDmitri Mendeleev to the then undiscovered element at the position of gallium in his periodic table ) eka-aluminium gallium (uncountable )
gallium FromLatin Gallia .
gallium n (singular definite galliummet ,not used in plural form )
gallium 2006 ,Bogen Om Grundstofferne , Gyldendal Uddannelse,→ISBN , page72 :1879 ,Tidsskrift for populære fremstillinger af naturvidenskaben :1920 ,Fysisk tidsskrift :... at ogsaa flydende Gallium er dobbelt saa sammentrykkeligt som det faste, ... (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) Borrowed fromFrench gallium .
IPA (key ) : /ˈɣɑ.li.ʏm/ Hyphenation:gal‧li‧um gallium n (uncountable )
gallium ( chemical element with atomic number 31 ) [from 1870s] German Gallium .
gallium (genitive galliumi ,partitive galliumi or galliumit )
gallium Internationalism (seeEnglish gallium ).
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gallium gallium m (uncountable )
gallium IPA (key ) : [ˈɡɒlːijum] Hyphenation:gal‧li‧um Rhymes:-um gallium (usuallyuncountable ,plural galliumok )
gallium (chemical element)gallium n (genitive galliī ) ;second declension
gallium Second-declension noun (neuter).
gallium inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894 )Latin Phrase-Book [1] , London:Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) Gaul is bounded by the Rhone.[TR1:Gallia Rhodano continetur (vid. sect. V. 4., notecontineri aliqua re... )gallium n
( uncountable ) gallium Apart of gallium gallium n (uncountable )
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