manganese

See also: manganèse

English

Chemical element
Mn
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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/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋ.ɡəˌniːz/
Audio (General American): (file)
Hyphenation: man‧ga‧nese

Noun

manganese (countable and uncountable, plural manganeses)

(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^[1], archived from the original on 27 June 2015:
  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.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 January 2021:
  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.
(countable) A single atom of this element.

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Descendants

→ Welsh: manganîs

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: mangaan (af)
Albanian: mangan (sq) m
Arabic: مَنْغَنِيز m (manḡanīz), مَنْجَنِيز m (manjanīz)
Armenian: մանգան (hy) (mangan)
Asturian: manganesu (ast) m
Basque: manganesoa
Belarusian: ма́рганец m (márhanjec)
Breton: manganez m
Bulgarian: манга́н (bg) m (mangán)
Catalan: manganès (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 錳 / 锰 (zh) (měng)
Cornish: manganes m
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
Frisian:
West Frisian: mangaan ?
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
Indonesian: mangan (id)
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 m
Lithuanian: manganas (lt) ?
Luxembourgish: Mangan ?
Macedonian: манган m (mangan)
Malay: mangan (ms), batu kawi
Malayalam: മാംഗനീസ് (māṅganīsŭ)
Maltese: manganiż m
Manx: manganais ?
Māori: konupango
Mongolian: манган (mn) (mangan)
Norwegian: mangan (no) n
Occitan: manganès (oc) m
Persian: منگنز (fa) (mangenez)
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

Latin: màngān (sh) m
Slovak: mangán (sk) m
Slovene: mangan (sl) m
Spanish: manganeso (es) m
Swahili: manganizi
Swedish: mangan (sv) n
Tagalog: mangganeso
Tajik: манган (mangan)
Tamil: செவ்விரும்பு (cevvirumpu), மாங்கனீசு (ta) (māṅkaṉīcu)
Thai: แมงกานีส (th) (mɛɛng-gaa-níis)
Turkish: mangan (tr), manganez (tr)
Ukrainian: марганець m (marhanecʹ)
Uzbek: marganets (uz)
Cyrillic: марганец (uz)
Vietnamese: mangan
Volapük: manganin (vo)
Welsh: manganîs (cy) m
Yiddish: מאַנגאַנעז m (manganez), מאַנגאַן m (mangan)
Yoruba: máńganíìsì