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Periodic Table: Gallium
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This is the Royal Society of Chemistry's own periodic table reference page for gallium, recording the element's history, including that Lecoq de Boisbaudran patriotically named it for Gallia, the Latin name for France, and the immediate contemporary observation that gallus, the Latin for rooster, echoes the discoverer's own surname. As a chemical society's own reference resource it is a reliable source for this kind of standard elemental history and naming detail. Its limit is that the page states no publication or last-revised year, so the record here deliberately leaves that field null rather than guessing at one, and a claim needing to date this specific version of the page should note the retrieval date of 25 July 2026 recorded alongside it.
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The Royal Society of Chemistry's own periodic table reference page for gallium; though a professional chemistry body's own reference resource, the page carries no stated publication or revision date to verify against, so it is held at the tradition's-own-account tier rather than the top tier given to a dated, citable institutional record. NotesThe history section records that Lecoq de Boisbaudran patriotically based the name on Gallia, the Latin name for France, and that it was immediately pointed out that there might be something more to the name than met the eye, the Latin for a rooster being gallus and the discoverer being named Lecoq. Read 25 July 2026. No publication year is stated on the page, so the year is left null rather than guessed.
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AuthorRoyal Society of Chemistry
PublisherRoyal Society of Chemistry
URLhttps://periodic-table.rsc.org/element/31/gallium
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This source names France directly: "it for Gallia, the Latin name for France, and the immediate contemporary observation that gallus, the Latin for rooster, echoes the discoverer's own surname."
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- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Periodic Elements, 3 claims: 1 open question, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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