manganese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măngʹgə-nēz'
enpr: -nēs'
ipa: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌniz/
ipa: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌnis/
ipa: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌniːz/
Forms: form: manganeses
form: manganesium
form: manganesum
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2015:
text: For the past ten years Brad Racette, a neurologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, has been tracking those effects, paying special attention to welders, since they are exposed to more manganese than most people. Being harder than iron, manganese is often used to strengthen steel and is present in many industrial emissions, including welding fumes.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:
glosses: 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.
glosses: A single atom of this element.
Derived terms: armangite
black manganese
chloromanganese
copper-manganese
corneous manganese
dimanganese
eka-manganese
ekamanganese
ferromanganese
grey manganese
heptamanganese
hexamanganese
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 group
manganese heptoxide
manganese iodide
manganesemia
manganese nodule
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
manganesic acid
manganesious
manganesite
manganesous
mangani-
manganian
manganic
manganiferous
manganin
manganism
manganite
manganize
mangano-
manganoan
manganoso-magnesium alum
manganoso-manganic acid
manganous
manganpyrosmalite
methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl
nonamanganese
nonmanganese
octamanganese
organomanganese
pentamanganese
proto-manganese
pyroxmangite
radiomanganese
red manganese
silico-manganese
silicomanganese
tetradecamanganese
tetramanganese
tridecamanganese
white manganese
Related terms: manganate
manganosite
permanganate
Condy's crystals
pyrolusite
rhodochrosite