gangue
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French gangue. Doublet of gang.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gangue (countable and uncountable, plural gangues)
- (mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.
- 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 147:
- Thus the percentage recovery of metal from the ore was much higher than in the primitive process where the semi-vitrified gangue and half-smelted ore are typically rich in prills of copper and copper minerals.
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Translations[edit]
earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore
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Further reading[edit]
- gangue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- extractive metallurgy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A borrowing from German Gang (“way, path, trail, track, course, line, duct”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gangue f (plural gangues)
Further reading[edit]
- “gangue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: gan‧gue
Noun[edit]
gangue (Portugal) m or (Brazil) f (plural gangues)
- gang; street gang (criminal group, especially one that practices petty crime)
- gang (a group of friends who do things together regularly, especially mischievous children)
Derived terms[edit]
- ganguezinha (diminutive) (Brazil)
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