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 gallijs on Latvian Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Latin Gallia (Gaul), named by its discoverer Lecoq. 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.

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Noun

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Chemical element
Ga
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gallijs m (1st declension)

  1. gallium (metallic chemical element, with atomic number 31)
    gallija kristālsgallium crystals

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