gallium

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɡæliəm/

Definition of gallium

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A chemical element (symbol Ga) with an atomic number of 31; a soft bluish metal.

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Etymology

Named by its discoverer Lecoq, after Latin Gallia (“Gaul”). It was claimed that Lecoq had named the element after himself, since gallus is the Latin translation of the French le coq, but Lecoq denied this in an article of 1877.

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