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Webster 1828 Edition

Manganese

MAN'GANESE

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Noun.

A metal of a dusky white, or whitish gray color, very hard and difficult to fuse. It never occurs as a natural product in a metallic state. The substance usually so called is an oxyd of manganese, but not pure.

Definition 2024

manganese

manganese

See also: manganèse

English

Chemical element
Mn	Previous: chromium (Cr)
Mn	Next: iron (Fe)

Alternative forms

manganesium (obsolete)
manganesum (obsolete)

Noun

manganese ‎(countable and uncountable, plural manganeses)

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

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Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: mangaan
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 (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) ‎(mangán)
Hindi: अयस (hi) ‎(ayas)
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 ‎(marganec)

Korean: 망간 (ko) ‎(manggan), 망가니즈 (ko) ‎(mangganijeu)
Latin: manganum (la) n
Latvian: mangāns
Lithuanian: manganas (lt)
Luxembourgish: Mangan
Macedonian: манган m ‎(mangan)
Malay: mangan, batu kawi
Maltese: manganiż
Manx: manganais
Mongolian: манган (mn) ‎(mangan)
Norwegian: mangan (no) n
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
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ма̀нга̄н m

Roman: màngān (sh) m
Slovak: mangán m
Slovene: mangan (sl) m
Spanish: manganeso (es) m
Swedish: mangan (sv) n
Tagalog: mangganeso
Tajik: манган ‎(mangan)
Tamil: செவ்விரும்பு ‎(cevvirumpu)
Thai: แมงกานีส ‎(maengkānīt)
Turkish: mangan (tr)
Ukrainian: марганець m ‎(marhanecʹ)
Uzbek: marganets (uz), марганец (uz)
Vietnamese: mangan
Volapük: manganin (vo)
Welsh: manganîs (cy)
West Frisian: mangaan
Yiddish: מאַנגאַנעז m ‎(manganez), מאַנגאַן m ‎(mangan)

External links

manganese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

Italian

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

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: man‧ga‧né‧se
IPA^(key): /maŋ.ɡaˈne.se/, /maŋ.ɡaˈne.ze/

Noun

manganese m ‎(plural manganesi)

(chemistry) manganese

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