Galena Definition

gə-lēnə
noun
A soft, lead-gray, very heavy, crystalline mineral, lead sulfide, PbS, with a bright metallic luster, that is the chief ore of lead.
Webster's New World
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pronoun
A place name for a number of United States towns and cities.
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Other Word Forms of Galena

Noun

Singular:
galena
Plural:
galenas

Origin of Galena

  • From Latin galena (“dross from smelting lead”), of unknown origin.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin galēna lead ore

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Galena Sentence Examples

  • The government let the mines to contractors for forty years and then took them over; but in the period from 1720 to 1840 only 14,620 tons of galena were extracted and 2772 of lead.

  • The most important minerals are lead and zinc, obtained in lodes in the forms of galena and calamine respectively.

  • Galena is found in small quantity, and in some places it contains a large percentage of silver.

  • Galena and other lead ores are abundant in veins in the limestone, but they are now only worked on a large scale at Mill Close, near Winster; calamine, zinc blende, barytes, calcite and fluor-spar are common.

  • Galena and other lead ores are abundant in veins in the limestone, but they are now only worked on a large scale at Mill Close, near Winster; calamine, zinc, blende, barytes, calcite and fluor-spar are common.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAL

Words Ending With

ANAENA

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With G6 Letter Words Ending With A