Definitions for gangue

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Spelling: [gang]
IPA: /gæŋ/

Gangue is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in gangue (aeggnu).

Definitions for gangue

noun

  1. rock or mineral matter of no value occurring with the metallic ore in a vein or deposit.

Origin of gangue

1800-10; French German Gang; see gang1

Examples for gangue

The vein stone, or gangue, is all that part of a vein that is not mineral.

The gangue is quartz, occasionally argillaceous and bituminous.

He wants to make friends with her, that she may help him to find the gangue.

The sulphur of the galena falls to the bottom of the bath, and may be separated from the gangue by solution in carbon disulphide.

Fluor spar is as favorable a gangue for lead as quartz is for gold.

Neither of them had the slightest traces of gangue, or vein-matter, nor of attrition in being removed from the parent beds.

He dived head foremost into a rectangular wooden trough that was used for the disposal of the gangue from a crushing mill above.

At these places, it is most frequently connected with a gangue of heavy spar and calcareous spar, with pyrites of iron.

The gangue is mainly fine-grained quartz or jasperoid, and barite.

This gangue is dug out and broken up as in mines of other metals.

Word Value for gangue
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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