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 Learn more about Manganese in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Manganese oxide is used in the original type of dry cell battery.
The Swedish chemist Scheele was the first to recognize that manganese was an element, and his colleague, J. Gahn, isolated the pure element in 1774 by reduction of the dioxide with carbon.
Manganese is part of the iron group of elements which are thought to be synthesized in large stars shortly before supernova explosion.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/ma/manganese.html   (1011 words)

  
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Mechanisms of Pb(II) sorption on a biogenic manganese oxide.
Reductive dissolution of biogenic manganese oxides in the presence of a hydrated biofilm.
Current projects include experimental and theoretical studies of siderophore reactions, the structure and reactivity of biogenic manganese oxides, iron oxidation-reduction reactions in tropical soils, and arsenic biogeochemistry in aquifers.
www.cnr.berkeley.edu /~gsposito/Gary   (1182 words)

  
 Cave painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cave art may have begun in the Aurignacian period (Hohle Fels, Germany), but reached its apogee in the late Magdalenian (Lascaux, France).
The paintings were drawn with red and yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide and charcoal.
Sometimes the silhouette of the animal was incised in the rock first.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cave_painting   (860 words)

  
 Utah History Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Called a "Breaks" because of its abrupt, broken, and deeply eroded canyon, it is a 3.8-mile-long and 2.5-mile-wide amphitheater containing numerous ridges, cliffs, and spires eroded some 2,000 feet below the 10,300- to 10,500-foot elevation of the canyon.
Iron and manganese oxide impurities produce an amazing variety of colors in the limestone cliffs that constantly change with the angle of the sun's rays.
In the meadows bordering the six-mile-long rim drive, colorful wildflowers in season provide another resplendent attraction.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/c/CEDARBREAKS.html   (400 words)

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