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Osteoclast function and ultrastructural morphology have been shown to be highly responsive to anti-resorbing agents such as ethane-1-hydroxy-1,1-diphosphonate (EHDP) [ 8, 9], dichloromethylene diphosphanate (Cl 2 MDP) [ 10], calcitonin [ 11, 12, 13], other anti-resorptive agents, such as mithramycin [ 14], and to gallium nitrate [ 15].
Note: Clue (x) should have read “gallium” (for “gadolinium”).
The name of gallium is not only a pun on the name of its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but a patriotic tribute to his native country—Latin Gallia , Gaul, France.
gallium - galling, gleam, galleon, gulling, gallon, gelling, gullying, gamily
As gallium is the only other metal, besides mercury, which is liquid at room temperature and since liquid metals have a slightly shady reputation, perhaps Lecoq's trick was poetically apt.