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manganese Noun Chem a brittle greyish-white metallic element used in making steel Symbol: Mn[probably altered form of Medieval Latin magnesia]
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"White quartzose sand," Paul rattled off, "sodic carbonate, slaked lime, cutlet, manganese peroxide--there you have it, the finest French plate glass, made by the great St. Notwithstanding her jealousy of the Vincys and of Mary Garth, there remained as the nethermost sediment in her mental shallows a persuasion that her brother Peter Featherstone could never leave his chief property away from his blood-relations:--else, why had the Almighty carried off his two wives both childless, after he had gained so much by manganese and things, turning up when nobody expected it? The layer is of extreme thinness; and on analysis by Berzelius it was found to consist of the oxides of manganese and iron. |
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