manganese

manganese

See also: manganèse

English

Chemical element
Mn
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Next: iron (Fe)

Alternative forms

• manganesium, manganesum (obsolete)

Etymology

From French manganèse, from Italian manganese, by alteration from Latin magnesia (“magnesia”), from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”). Doublet of Magnesia, magnesia, and magnesium; more at magnet.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: măngʹgə-nēz', -nēs'; IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌniz/, /ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌnis/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌniːz/
• Hyphenation: man‧ga‧nese

Noun

manganese (countable and uncountable, plural manganeses)

1. (uncountable) 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.
   • 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:

     Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: […] . The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.

2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• black manganese
• chloromanganese
• copper-manganese
• corneous manganese
• ekamanganese
• ferromanganese
• grey manganese
• horn manganese
• iron-manganese tungstate
• mangan-
• manganeous
• manganesane
• manganesate
• manganese-55
• manganese alum
• manganese binoxide
• manganese black
• manganese blende
• manganese bromide
• manganese bronze
• manganese brown
• manganese carbonate
• manganese chloride
• manganese copper
• manganese dibromide
• manganese dichloride
• manganese diiodide
• manganese dioxide
• manganese epidote
• manganese garnet
• manganese glance
• manganese grass
• manganese green
• manganese heptoxide
• manganese iodide
• manganese nodule
• manganeseous acid
• manganeseous acid
• manganese oxide
• manganese peroxide
• manganese purple
• manganese spar
• manganese steel
• manganese sulfate, manganese sulphate
• manganese superoxide
• manganese tetrafluoride
• manganese trioxide
• manganese violet
• manganese vitriol
• manganesian
• manganesiate
• manganesic acid
• manganesite
• manganesous
• mangani-
• manganian
• manganic
• manganiferous
• manganin
• manganism
• manganite
• mangano-
• manganoan
• manganoso-magnesium alum
• manganoso-manganic acid
• manganous
• red manganese
• silico-manganese, silicomanganese
• white manganese

 

Related terms

• manganate
• manganosite
• permanganate

 

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: mangaan (af) Albanian: mangan (sq) m Arabic: مَنْجَنِيز‎ m (manganīz) Armenian: մանգան (hy) (mangan) Asturian: manganesu (ast) m Basque: manganesoa Belarusian: ма́рганец m (márhanjec) Breton: manganez m Bulgarian: манга́н m (mangán) Catalan: manganès (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 錳 (zh) (měng) Cornish: manganus ? Czech: mangan (cs) m Danish: mangan (da) n Dutch: mangaan (nl) n, manganium n Esperanto: mangano (eo) Estonian: mangaan (et) Faroese: mangan n Finnish: mangaani (fi) French: manganèse (fr) m Friulian: manganês m Galician: manganeso (gl) m Georgian: მარგანეცი (marganeci) German: Mangan (de) n Greek: μαγγάνιο (el) n (mangánio) Hebrew: מנגן‎ (he) m (mangán) Hindi: अयस (hi) ? (ayas), इंगनी (hi) f (iṅgnī) Hungarian: mangán (hu) Icelandic: mangan (is) n Interlingua: manganese Irish: mangainéis (ga) f Italian: manganese (it) m Japanese: マンガン (ja) (mangan), (obsolete) 満俺 (mangan) Kashubian: mangan Kazakh: марганец (marganes) Khmer: ម៉ងកាណែស (mɑɑngkaanaeh), ម៉ង់កាណែស (mɑngkaanaeh) Korean: 망간 (ko) (manggan), 망가니즈 (ko) (mangganijeu) Latin: manganum (la) n Latvian: mangāns ? Lithuanian: manganas (lt) ? Luxembourgish: Mangan ? Macedonian: манган m (mangan) Malay: mangan (ms), batu kawi Maltese: manganiż ? Manx: manganais ? Maori: konupango Mongolian: манган (mn) (mangan) Norwegian: mangan (no) n Occitan: manganès m Persian: منگنز‎ (fa) (mangènèz) Polish: mangan (pl) m Portuguese: manganês (pt) m (Brazil), manganésio (pt) m (Portugal) Romanian: mangan (ro) n Russian: ма́рганец (ru) m (márganec) Scottish Gaelic: mangaineis m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ма̀нга̄н m Roman: màngān (sh) m Slovak: mangán (sk) m Slovene: mangan (sl) m Spanish: manganeso (es) m Swedish: mangan (sv) n Tagalog: mangganeso Tajik: манган (mangan) Tamil: செவ்விரும்பு (cevvirumpu) Thai: แมงกานีส (mɛɛng-gaa-níis) Turkish: mangan (tr) Ukrainian: марганець m (marhanecʹ) Uzbek: marganets (uz) Cyrillic: марганец (uz) (marganeц) Vietnamese: mangan Volapük: manganin (vo) Welsh: manganîs (cy) m West Frisian: mangaan ? Yiddish: מאַנגאַנעז‎ m (manganez), מאַנגאַן‎ m (mangan) Yoruba: máńganíìsì

Further reading

• manganese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Condy's crystals
• pyrolusite
• rhodochrosite

 

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Italian

Chemical element
Mn
Previous: cromo (Cr)
Next: ferro (Fe)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man.ɡaˈne.ze/, (traditional) /man.ɡaˈne.se/
• Rhymes: -eze, (traditional) -ese
• Hyphenation: man‧ga‧né‧se

Noun

manganese m (plural manganesi)

1. (chemistry) manganese

Derived terms

• manganato
• manganico
• manganoso
• permanganato
• permanganico