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Lead-bearing ore
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galena
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lead ore, lead sulphide, c.1600, from Latin galena "mix of silver and lead; dross from smelting lead," of unknown origin. Related: Galenic .
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 675 Housing Units (2000): 259 Land area (2000): 17.874774 sq. miles (46.295451 sq. km) Water area (2000): 6.092414 sq. miles (15.779280 sq. km) Total area (2000): 23.967188 sq. miles (62.074731 sq. km) FIPS code: 27530 Located within: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galena \Ga*le"na\, n.[L. galena lead ore, dross that remains after melting lead: cf. F. gal[`e]ne sulphide of lead ore, antidote to poison, stillness of the sea, calm, tranquility.] (Med.) A remedy or antidote for poison; theriaca. [Obs.] --Parr. (Min.) ...
Wikipedia
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Galena is a mineral and an important lead ore. Galena may also refer to:
Usage examples of galena.
He was elected to Congress in 1852, from the Galena district, and his first term began on the day Franklin Pierce was inaugurated President.
One gram of copper pyrites, blende, fahlerz, or mispickel, yields 7 or 8 grams of lead, whilst 1 gram of antimonite will give 6, and 1 gram of galena only a little over 3 grams.
For example: 3 grams of an ore containing a good deal of pyrites and a little galena, gave, when fused with litharge, 16.
The Bouldershoulder brothers had come from the forbidding Galena Mountains, far to the north beyond Vaasa, where the ground was ever frozen and the stones were as tough as any in the Realms.
Galena Mountains, far to the north beyond Vaasa, where the ground was ever frozen and the stones were as tough as any in the Realms.
Then we make a ninety-degree turn to port, enter the narrower portion of the navigation channel, which snakes into the old city past La Porte and Galena Park.
Others were buried in the surgical history that Galena had read: the internal replacements for kidneys and liver, the hyperchip implant in one heart valve and the blood-filtering function.
The main component of galena is lead sulfide, and it is readily oxidized, when roasted in a wood fire, to form lead oxide.
On the pine-fringed ridge of the Galenas, among those granite cliffs and jagged peaks, the mettle of his manhood was to be tried under a strain such as few men in this commonplace work-a-day old world are-subjected to.
Farther on, where the pipe-line again rounds the inward curve of the wall between two mountain spurs, they turned aside to follow the Government trail that leads to the fire-break on the summit of the Galenas and then down into the valley on the other side.
The richest ores he had seen thus far were in quartz mixed with calcite, galena, and pyrite.