Meaning of galena | Babel Free

Definitions

1. lead ore
   declension-1
2. the dross that remains after smelting this ore
   broadly, declension-1

Examples

“Excoqui non potest, nisi cum plumbo nigro aut cum vena plumbi – galenam vocant – quae iuxta argenti venas plerumque reperitur.”

It cannot be smelted, except together with lead or with the vein of lead – they call it galena – that is mostly found next to veins of silver.

“societ[atis]·argent[iarium] fod[inarum]·mont[is]·ilvcr[?] galena”

SIL[VER] CO[MPANY]; MIN[ES] OF MT ILUCR[?]; GALENA; that is, “property of the Silver (Mines) Company; from the mines of Mount Ilucr…; made of galena.”

“Huius qui primus fuit in fornacibus liquor stagnum appellatur; qui secundus argentum; quod remansit in fornacibus, galena, quae fit tertia portio additae venae; haec rursus conflata dat nigrum plumbum deductis partibus nonis II.”

That which first becomes liquid in the furnaces is called stagnum; that which is second is silver; what remains in the furnaces is galena, which forms a third portion of the added vein; when again made to fuse this gives black lead, two-ninths having been deducted.

“Est et molybdaena, quam alio loco galenam appellavimus, vena argenti plumbique communis.”

There is also molybdaena, which elsewhere we have called galena, a mineral of silver and lead together.

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