Crossword-Solution: GANGUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gangue | n. | The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “GANGUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| METAL-bearing mineral, earthy material of | 1 answer |
| Worthless rock, in mining | 1 answer |
| stony matter | 1 answer |
| valueless material in an ore | 1 answer |
| earthy matter | 3 answers |
| WORTHLESS part | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GANGUE (5)
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.
Altogether there were about four hundred and eighty of these immense magnets in the plant, distributed in various buildings in batteries as above mentioned, the crushed rock containing the iron ore being delivered to them by conveyors, and the gangue and ore being taken away after separation by two other conveyors and delivered elsewhere.
Having crushed your gangue to a fine powder you proceed to pan it off in a similar manner to that of washing out alluvial earth, except that in prospecting quartz one has to be much more particular, as the gold is usually finer.
With regard to that found in quartz lodes finely disseminated through the gangue, the change was brought about by the same agency which caused the silicic acid to solidify and take the form in which we now see it in the quartz veins.
Careful dissolving of the pyrites and gangue so as to leave the gold intact failed to find it in any larger diameter.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1983).