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gangue
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What does gangue mean?
noun
- 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.
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.
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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.