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gangue

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What does gangue mean?

noun

  1. The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.

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Much earthy material--gangue--containing silica and silicates is always found with iron ores.
Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) WilliamsAn Introduction to Chemical ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #3708
Hence the elimination of the worthless "gangue" by concentration of the iron particles associated with it, seemed to be the only solution of the problem.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
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In taking from the gangue in which it was imbedded a skull from the megalithic monument of Vaureal, Pruner Bey noticed a fragment of a human shoulder blade pierced with an incision in which was fixed a little rounded piece of bone.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309