Definitions for gangues

gangues gangue

Spelling: [gang]
IPA: /gæŋ/

Gangues is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in gangues (aeggnsu).

Definitions for gangues

noun

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

Origin of gangues

1800-10; French German Gang; see gang1

Examples for gangues

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

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

The gangue is quartz, occasionally argillaceous and bituminous.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for gangues
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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