galena
IPA: gʌɫˈinʌ
noun
- (mineralogy) A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead.
- (medicine, obsolete) A remedy or antidote for poison; theriac
- A place name for a number of United States towns and cities.
- A small city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
- A city, the county seat of Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Named after the mineral galena.
- A census-designated place in Floyd County, Indiana.
- A city in Cherokee County, Kansas.
- A town in Kent County, Maryland.
- A small city, the county seat of Stone County, Missouri.
- A ghost town in Lander County, Nevada.
- A ghost town in Washoe County, Nevada.
- A village in Delaware County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.
- A ghost town in Snohomish County, Washington.
Advertisement
Examples of "galena" in Sentences
- There's Jeff Bezos on the right and Paul Saville on the left looking for galena, which is the lead-silver thing.
- The tablets, he discovered, were made of Tunisian lead, suggesting that the Romans were mining a lead ore known as galena in the African colony.
- ~ Lead is found in nature chiefly as the sulphide (PbS), called galena; to a much smaller extent it occurs as carbonate, sulphate, chromate, and in a few other forms.
- The machinery is long gone and water mint, butterwort, dragonflies and frogs flourish in the fenny pools where grey crystals of galena were separated from the spoil, but the shells of the buildings remain.
- Silver is found in the ores of other metals, such as fahlerz, which sometimes contains from two to ten per cent. of the metal, and galena, which is an important source of it; in fact, galena is never found entirely free from silver.
- a saddle of mutton; second course, a fowl they call galena at head, and a capon larger than some of our Irish turkeys, at foot; third course, four different sorts of ices, pine-apple, grape, raspberry, and a fourth; in each remove there were I think fourteen dishes.
- The fowls are flamingos, great curlews, and guinea-hens, which the natives of those islands call galena pintata, or the painted hen; but in Jamaica, where I have seen also those birds in the dry savannahs and woods (for they love to run about in such places) they are called guinea-hens.
- Clever though they were, they only knew lead when it occurred in the form known as galena, which looked like lead itself, and so they threw out a more valuable ore, cerusite, or lead carbonate, and the heaps of this valuable material were mined over a second time in comparatively recent times.
Advertisement
Advertisement