gallium

See also: Gallium

English

Crystals of 99.999% gallium

Chemical element
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Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡælɪəm/

Noun

gallium ‎(uncountable)

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

aluminium gallium arsenide, aluminum gallium arsenide aluminium gallium nitride, aluminum gallium nitride copper indium gallium selenide gallane gallium arsenide gallium arsenide phosphide

gallium citrate gallium gadolinium garnet gallium nitrate gallium nitride indium gallium nitride

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: gallium
• Albanian: galium (sq)
• Arabic: جَالْيُوم m ‎(galyum)
• Armenian: գալիում (hy) ‎(galium)
• Asturian: galiu m
• Basque: galioa
• Belarusian: га́лiй m ‎(hálij)
• Breton: galliom
• Bulgarian: га́лий m ‎(gálij)
• Catalan: gal·li (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎵 (zh) ‎(jiā)

• Cornish: galyum
• Czech: gallium (cs) n
• Danish: gallium (da) n
• Dutch: gallium (nl) n
• Esperanto: galio (eo), galiumo (eo)
• Estonian: gallium (et)
• Faroese: gallium n
• Finnish: gallium (fi)
• French: gallium (fr) m
• Friulian: gali
• Galician: galio (gl) m
• Georgian: გალიუმი ‎(galiumi)
• German: Gallium (de) n
• Greek: γάλλιο (el) n ‎(gállio)
• Hebrew: גליום (he) ‎(galium)
• Hindi: द्रवातु ‎(dravaatu)
• Hungarian: gallium (hu)
• Icelandic: gallín (is)
• Interlingua: gallium
• Irish: gailliam (ga)
• Italian: gallio (it) m
• Japanese: ガリウム (ja) ‎(gariumu)

• Kashubian: gôl
• Kazakh: га́ллий ‎(gállïy)
• Korean: 갈륨 (ko) ‎(gallyum)
• Latvian: gallijs
• Lithuanian: galis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Gallium
• Macedonian: галиум m ‎(galium)
• Malay: galium
• Maltese: gallju
• Manx: gallium
• Mongolian: галли ‎(galli)
• Norwegian: gallium (no)
• Polish: gal (pl) m
• Portuguese: gálio (pt) m
• Romanian: galiu (ro) n
• Russian: га́ллий (ru) m ‎(gállij)
• Scottish Gaelic: gailliam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: галиj m, галиjум m

  Roman: galij (sh) m, galijum m

• Slovak: gálium n
• Slovene: galij (sl)
• Spanish: galio (es) m
• Swedish: gallium (sv) n
• Tajik: галлий ‎(galliy)
• Tamil: மென்தங்கம் ‎(meṉtaṅkam)
• Thai: แกลเลียม (th) ‎(kaenliam)
• Turkish: galyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: га́лiй m ‎(hálij)
• Uzbek: галлий, galliy (uz)
• Vietnamese: gali
• Volapük: galin (vo)
• Welsh: galiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: gallium

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Ga	Previous: sink (Zn)
	Next: germanium (Ge)

Noun

gallium ‎(uncountable)

1. gallium

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Dutch

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Chemical element
Ga	Previous: zink (Zn)
	Next: germanium (Ge)

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

gallium n ‎(uncountable)

1. gallium

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Estonian

Noun

gallium ‎(genitive galliumi, partitive galliumi or galliumit)

1. gallium

Declension

Inflection of gallium (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	gallium	galliumid
accusative	galliumi	galliumid
genitive	galliumi	galliumide
partitive	galliumi	galliume galliumisid
illative	galliumi galliumisse	galliumidesse galliumesse
inessive	galliumis	galliumides galliumes
elative	galliumist	galliumidest galliumest
allative	galliumile	galliumidele galliumele
adessive	galliumil	galliumidel galliumel
ablative	galliumilt	galliumidelt galliumelt
translative	galliumiks	galliumideks galliumeks
terminative	galliumini	galliumideni
essive	galliumina	galliumidena
abessive	galliumita	galliumideta
comitative	galliumiga	galliumidega

Inflection of gallium (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	gallium	—
accusative	galliumi	—
genitive	galliumi	—
partitive	galliumit	—
illative	galliumisse	—
inessive	galliumis	—
elative	galliumist	—
allative	galliumile	—
adessive	galliumil	—
ablative	galliumilt	—
translative	galliumiks	—
terminative	galliumini	—
essive	galliumina	—
abessive	galliumita	—
comitative	galliumiga	—

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Finnish

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Noun

gallium

1. gallium

Declension

Inflection of gallium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		gallium	galliumit
genitive		galliumin	galliumien
partitive		galliumia	galliumeja
illative		galliumiin	galliumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		gallium	galliumit
accusative	nom.	gallium	galliumit
	gen.	galliumin
genitive		galliumin	galliumien
partitive		galliumia	galliumeja
inessive		galliumissa	galliumeissa
elative		galliumista	galliumeista
illative		galliumiin	galliumeihin
adessive		galliumilla	galliumeilla
ablative		galliumilta	galliumeilta
allative		galliumille	galliumeille
essive		galliumina	galliumeina
translative		galliumiksi	galliumeiksi
instructive		—	galliumein
abessive		galliumitta	galliumeitta
comitative		—	galliumeineen

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French

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ljɔm/

Noun

gallium m ‎(uncountable)

1. gallium

External links

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

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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒlːiʲum]
• Hyphenation: gal‧li‧um

Noun

gallium ‎(plural galliumok)

1. gallium

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	gallium	galliumok
accusative	galliumot	galliumokat
dative	galliumnak	galliumoknak
instrumental	galliummal	galliumokkal
causal-final	galliumért	galliumokért
translative	galliummá	galliumokká
terminative	galliumig	galliumokig
essive-formal	galliumként	galliumokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	galliumban	galliumokban
superessive	galliumon	galliumokon
adessive	galliumnál	galliumoknál
illative	galliumba	galliumokba
sublative	galliumra	galliumokra
allative	galliumhoz	galliumokhoz
elative	galliumból	galliumokból
delative	galliumról	galliumokról
ablative	galliumtól	galliumoktól

Possessive forms of gallium
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	galliumom	galliumaim
2nd person sing.	galliumod	galliumaid
3rd person sing.	galliuma	galliumai
1st person plural	galliumunk	galliumaink
2nd person plural	galliumotok	galliumaitok
3rd person plural	galliumuk	galliumaik

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Latin

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.li.um/, [ˈɡal.li.ũ]

Noun

gallium n ‎(genitive galliī); second declension

1. gallium

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	gallium	gallia
genitive	galliī	galliōrum
dative	galliō	galliīs
accusative	gallium	gallia
ablative	galliō	galliīs
vocative	gallium	gallia

References

• gallium in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) Gaul is bounded by the Rhone.[TR1: Gallia Rhodano continetur (vid. sect. V. 4., note contineri aliqua re...)
    

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʝɑ˦ʎɔ˧m]

Noun

gallium n

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

Inflection

Declension of gallium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	gallium	gallia	gallieke	galliekes
Genitive	galliums	gallia	galliekes	galliekes
Locative	gallieës	gallieëser	gallieëske	gallieëskes
Dative¹	galliumme	—	gallieke	—
Accusative¹	gallium	—	gallieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Swedish

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Noun

gallium n ‎(uncountable)

1. gallium

Declension

Declension of gallium

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	gallium	galliumet
genitive	galliums	galliumets