Manganite meaning

măng'gə-nīt'
A steel-gray to black mineral, MnO(OH), found in North America and Europe; manganese oxide.
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A dark-colored, shiny mineral, MnO(HO), that is an ore of manganese; hydrous manganese oxide.
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Any of a series of salts that may be considered as derivatives of manganous acid, the hydroxide of tetravalent manganese.
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(geology) A dark gray mineral of manganese, MnO(OH), found throughout North America and Europe.
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Manganite Sentence Examples

  • The ore generally occurs in the form of oxides, manganite and pyrolusite, and contains a high percentage of sesquioxide of manganese.

  • GOTHITE, or Goethite, a mineral composed of an iron hydrate, Fe203.H20, crystallizing in the orthorhombic system and isomorphous with diaspore and manganite.

  • Manganese is found widely distributed in nature, being generally found to a greater or less extent associated with the carbonates and silicates of iron, calcium and magnesium, and also as the minerals braunite, hausmannite, psilomelane, manganite, manganese spar and hauerite.

  • The hydrated form, found native as the mineral manganite, is produced by the spontaneous oxidation of manganous h y droxide.

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