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Galena

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.]

  1. (Med.) A remedy or antidote for poison; theriaca. [Obs.]
    --Parr.

  2. (Min.) Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage.

    False galena. See Blende.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
galena

lead ore, lead sulphide, c.1600, from Latin galena "mix of silver and lead; dross from smelting lead," of unknown origin. Related: Galenic.

Wiktionary
galena

n. 1 (context mineral English) A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead. ( From circa 1600.) 2 (context medicine obsolete English) A remedy or antidose for poison; theriac.

WordNet
galena

n. soft blue-gray mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead

Gazetteer
Galena, AK -- U.S. city in Alaska
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: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 64.740643 N, 156.885462 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99741
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Galena, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 305
Housing Units (2000): 132
Land area (2000): 0.598285 sq. miles (1.549552 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.045776 sq. miles (0.118560 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.644061 sq. miles (1.668112 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29148
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.215214 N, 82.881757 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43021
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Galena, OH
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Galena, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 3460
Housing Units (2000): 1821
Land area (2000): 3.734739 sq. miles (9.672929 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000524 sq. miles (0.001358 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.735263 sq. miles (9.674287 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28300
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.418171 N, 90.431472 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61036
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Galena, IN -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Indiana
Population (2000): 1831
Housing Units (2000): 638
Land area (2000): 2.649128 sq. miles (6.861210 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.649128 sq. miles (6.861210 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26206
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 38.350585 N, 85.940435 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Galena, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 3287
Housing Units (2000): 1471
Land area (2000): 4.552979 sq. miles (11.792162 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.048870 sq. miles (0.126573 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.601849 sq. miles (11.918735 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25100
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.074459 N, 94.635549 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66739
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Headwords:
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Galena, MD -- U.S. town in Maryland
Population (2000): 428
Housing Units (2000): 202
Land area (2000): 0.354258 sq. miles (0.917524 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.354258 sq. miles (0.917524 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31225
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.341680 N, 75.878444 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 21635
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Headwords:
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Galena, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 451
Housing Units (2000): 215
Land area (2000): 0.683641 sq. miles (1.770623 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.683641 sq. miles (1.770623 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26254
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.805497 N, 93.467261 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65656
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Galena (disambiguation)

Galena is a mineral and an important lead ore.

Galena may also refer to:

Galena

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide. It is the most important ore of lead and an important source of silver.

Galena is one of the most abundant and widely distributed sulfide minerals. It crystallizes in the cubic crystal system often showing octahedral forms. It is often associated with the minerals sphalerite, calcite and fluorite.

Galena (Amtrak station)

The Galena Amtrak station is a proposed train station located in Galena, Illinois, and will serve a new Chicago- Rockford- Dubuque Amtrak route that is expected to begin operation in late 2014 or early 2015. However, with the new proposal for Amtrak service to terminate in Rockford following the inability of the state of Illinois to reach a deal with the Canadian National Railway for use of their tracks, the Galena station project is on hold until a deal can be reached with the CN.

Galena (singer)

Galina Vicheva Gencheva (in Bulgarian Галина Вичева Генчева, May 21, 1985, Smyadovo, Bulgaria), better known by her stage name Galena (in Bulgarian Галена) is a Bulgarian singer.

Galena attended music school in Shumen. Two years later she moved another music school in Dimitrovgrad. Galena was discovered by the singer Milko Kalaydzhiev. She started her career under the name Galya and recorded her first single "Можеш ли", and her debut studio album as Galena came in 2006, on Payner Music. Another song, a duet with Boris Dali titled "Намерих те" found an even bigger success.

Galena has released further albums, След 12 in 2008 and Официално забранен in 2010. She has also collaborated with a great number of Bulgarian acts including Niki Nankov, Malina, Preslava and Andrea. She has also appeared in a number of high-profile promotional ads.

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.