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English

Noun

gallane (countable and uncountable, plural gallanes)

1. (inorganic chemistry) gallium hydride (Ga₂H₆ or other similar compounds)

Usage notes

• This is the IUPAC name

Anagrams

• Allegan

English

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?l'??m, IPA^(key): /??æli?m/

Noun

gallium (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: (name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the then undiscovered element at the position of gallium in his periodic table) eka-aluminium

Derived terms

Translations

Afrikaans

Noun

gallium (uncountable)

1. gallium

Danish

Noun

gallium n (singular definite galliumet, not used in plural form)

1. gallium
   • 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse ?ISBN, page 72

     Gallium er det eneste rene metal, som udvider sig ved størkning.

   • 1879, Tidsskrift for populære fremstillinger af naturvidenskaben

     Krystaller af Gallium dannes forholdsvis let, ...

   • 1920, Fysisk tidsskrift

     ... at ogsaa flydende Gallium er dobbelt saa sammentrykkeligt som det faste, ...

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gallium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.li.?m/
• Hyphenation: gal?li?um

Noun

gallium n (uncountable)

1. gallium (chemical element with atomic number 31) [from 1870s]

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

gallium (genitive galliumi, partitive galliumi or galliumit)

1. gallium

Declension

Finnish

Noun

gallium

1. gallium

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.lj?m/

Noun

gallium m (uncountable)

1. gallium

Descendants

• Lingala: galu

Further reading

• “gallium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???l?ijum]
• Hyphenation: gal?li?um
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

gallium (usually uncountable, plural galliumok)

1. gallium (chemical element)

Declension

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??al.li.um/, [??äl??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??al.li.um/, [???l?ium]

Noun

gallium n (genitive galli?); second declension

1. gallium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• gallium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???????m]

Noun

gallium n

1. (uncountable) gallium
2. A part of gallium

Inflection

Swedish

Noun

gallium n (uncountable)

1. gallium

Declension