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Definitions for Manganese
ˈmæŋ gəˌnis, -ˌnizman·ganese

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. manganese, Mn, atomic number 25noun

    a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals

Wiktionary

  1. manganesenoun

    A metallic chemical element (symbol Mn) with an atomic number of 25.

  2. Etymology: manganèse, from manganese, by alteration from magnesia, magnesia, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsia), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsia), Magnesia

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Manganesenoun

    Manganese is extremely well known by name, though the glassmen use it for many different substances, that have the same effect in clearing the foul colour of their glass: it is properly an iron ore of a poorer sort; the most perfect sort is of a dark iron grey, very heavy but brittle. Hill.

    Etymology: mangunesia, low Latin.

    Manganese is rarely found but in an iron vein. John Woodward.

Wikipedia

  1. Manganese

    Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy uses, particularly in stainless steels. It improves strength, workability, and resistance to wear. Manganese oxide is used as an oxidising agent; as a rubber additive; and in glass making, fertilisers, and ceramics. Manganese sulfate can be used as a fungicide. Manganese is also an essential human dietary element, important in macronutrient metabolism, bone formation, and free radical defense systems. It is a critical component in dozens of proteins and enzymes. It is found mostly in the bones, but also the liver, kidneys, and brain. In the human brain, the manganese is bound to manganese metalloproteins, most notably glutamine synthetase in astrocytes. Manganese was first isolated in 1774. It is familiar in the laboratory in the form of the deep violet salt potassium permanganate. It occurs at the active sites in some enzymes. Of particular interest is the use of a Mn-O cluster, the oxygen-evolving complex, in the production of oxygen by plants.

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  1. manganese

    Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, silvery-grey, brittle metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. It is essential to plant and animal life and is crucial in steelmaking for its sulfur-fixing, deoxidizing, and alloying properties. It is also used in dry cell batteries, plant fertilizers and in ceramics and glass.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Manganesenoun

    an element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8

  2. Etymology: [F. manganse, It. manganese, sasso magnesio; prob. corrupted from L. magnes, because of its resemblance to the magnet. See Magnet, and cf. Magnesia.]

Wikidata

  1. Manganese

    Manganese is a chemical element, designated by the symbol Mn. It has the atomic number 25. It is found as a free element in nature, and in many minerals. Manganese is a metal with important industrial metal alloy uses, particularly in stainless steels. Historically, manganese is named for various black minerals from the same region of Magnesia in Greece which gave names to similar-sounding magnesium, Mg, and magnetite, an ore of the element iron, Fe. By the mid-18th century, Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele had used pyrolusite to produce chlorine. Scheele and others were aware that pyrolusite contained a new element, but they were not able to isolate it. Johan Gottlieb Gahn was the first to isolate an impure sample of manganese metal in 1774, by reducing the dioxide with carbon. Manganese phosphating is used as a treatment for rust and corrosion prevention on steel. Depending on their oxidation state, manganese ions have various colors and are used industrially as pigments. The permanganates of alkali and alkaline earth metals are powerful oxidizers. Manganese dioxide is used as the cathode material in zinc-carbon and alkaline batteries.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Manganese

    mang-ga-nēz′, or mang′ga-nēz, n. a hard and brittle metal of a grayish-white colour, somewhat like iron.—adjs. Manganē′sian, Manganē′sic, Mangan′ic, Mang′anous; Manganif′erous.—n. Mang′anite, gray ore of manganese, used in glass manufacture. [O. Fr. manganese, a material used in making glass, prob. from It. and cog. with magnesia.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Manganese

    A trace element with atomic symbol Mn, atomic number 25, and atomic weight 54.94. It is concentrated in cell mitochondria, mostly in the pituitary gland, liver, pancreas, kidney, and bone, influences the synthesis of mucopolysaccharides, stimulates hepatic synthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids, and is a cofactor in many enzymes, including arginase and alkaline phosphatase in the liver. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual 1992, p2035)

Editors Contribution

  1. manganese

    An element.

    Manganese is often found in combination with iron, and in many minerals. It is an important industrial metal alloy and used particularly in stainless steels.


    Submitted by MaryC on November 20, 2015  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Manganese in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Manganese in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Manganese in a Sentence

  1. Greg Foulis:

    We do not use arsenic or manganese in our operation.

  2. Jim White:

    Pumpkin seeds are high in vitamin A, vitamin B (including thiamin, riboflavin), vitamin C, vitamin K, niacin, calcium, iron, phosphorus, and protein, they are also high in magnesium, manganese, zinc, potassium, and copper.

  3. Woodward Fischer:

    This discovery from Jared Leadbetter and Hang fills a major intellectual gap in our understanding of Earth's elemental cycles, and adds to the diverse ways in which manganese, an abstruse but common transition metal, has shaped the evolution of life on our planet.

  4. Jared Leadbetter:

    These are the first bacteria found to use manganese as their source of fuel, a wonderful aspect of microbes in nature is that they can metabolize seemingly unlikely materials, like metals, yielding energy useful to the cell.

  5. Donna Lisenby:

    The Cape Fear sample also had higher levels of chromium, lead, manganese and selenium.

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