Example sentences for: gallium

How can you use “gallium” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1886 the aforesaid Lecoq de Boisbaudran (who had already discovered gallium in 1875) isolated dysprosium (Greek for difficult to reach).

  • 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.

  • gallium - galling, gleam, galleon, gulling, gallon, gelling, gullying, gamily

  • 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.


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