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

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

manganese (countable and uncountable, plural manganeses)

2. (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.

3. (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 m
• Basque: manganesoa
• Belarusian: ма́рганец m (márhanjec)
• Breton: manganez m
• Bulgarian: манга́н m (mangán)
• Catalan: manganès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錳／锰 (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)
• Korean: 망간 (ko) (manggan), 망가니즈 (ko) (mangganijeu)
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• 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)

• 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