Gallium is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 114 anagrams from letters in gallium (agillmu).
1870-75; New Latin, equivalent to Latin gall(us) cock (translation of French coq, from Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 19th-century French chemist) + New Latin -ium -ium
Who, for instance, will find a use for gallium, the metal of France?
In neutral solutions, zinc gives a precipitate of gallium oxide.
Its salts would be precipitable by barium carbonate; the gallium salts are thrown down by this reagent.
The hypothetical Eka aluminium of Mendelejeff appears therefore to correspond with the gallium of Boisbaudran.
III a.—Aluminium, gallium and indium were examined from this group.
Its specific gravity (and this is very remarkable) would be about 59; gallium has a specific gravity of 593.
Chemical reactions of gallium:—The following are the chief reactions of the salts of gallium when in solution.
Lecoq de Boisbaudran and E. Jungfleisch, on the extraction of gallium from the ores in which it is found associated with indium.
The gallium mine was merely an attempt to cover himself with respectability.
gallium forms colourless salts, which in neutral dilute aqueous solutions are converted on heating into basic salts.