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manganese

/ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌniz/

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What does manganese mean?

noun

  1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Mn) with an atomic number of 25, not a free element in nature but often found in minerals in combination with iron, and useful in industrial alloy production.
  2. An atom of this element.

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/ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌniz/

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/ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌnis/
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“But that was for the manganese. That wasn’t for railways to blow you to pieces right and left.”
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
If the bromide be treated with a mixture of sulphuric acid, and peroxide of manganese, bromide is only disengaged.
S. D. (Samuel Dwight) HumphreyAmerican Hand Book of the DaguerreotypeProject Gutenberg ebook #167
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The elements plants build with include calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, sulfur, iron, zinc, cobalt, boron, manganese, molybdenum, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen.
Steve SolomonOrganic Gardener's CompostingProject Gutenberg ebook #4342
All these fragments of ochre or manganese, red chalk or black lead, were reduced to powder with the help of pebbles, artificially hollowed out.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309
During the morning a sounding realized two thousand two hundred and seventy fathoms and the sample of mud contained a small, black manganese nodule.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137