Manganese Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy use ...

oxide is any of a variety of manganese oxides and hydroxides.Wells A.F. (1984) ''Structural inorganic chemistry'' 5th edition Oxford Science Publications, . These include *

Manganese(II) oxide Manganese(II) oxide is an inorganic compound with chemical formula MnO.Arno H. Reidies "Manganese Compounds" Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology 2007; Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. It forms green crystals. The compound is produced on a large s ...

, MnO * Manganese(II,III) oxide, Mn₃O₄ * Manganese(III) oxide, Mn₂O₃ * Manganese dioxide, MnO₂ * Manganese(VI) oxide, MnO₃ * Manganese(VII) oxide, Mn₂O₇ Other manganese oxides include Mn₅O₈, Mn₇O₁₂ and Mn₇O₁₃.

Minerals

It may refer more specifically to the following manganese minerals: *

Birnessite Birnessite (nominally MnO2.''n''H2O) is a hydrous manganese dioxide mineral with a chemical formula of Na0.7Ca0.3Mn7O14·2.8H2O. It is the main manganese mineral species at the Earth's surface, and commonly occurs as fine-grained, poorly crystall ...

Buserite Buserite is a hydrated layered Mn-oxide mineral with nominal chemical formula MnO2.''n''H2O. It was named after Swiss chemist professor W. Buser, who first identified it in 1952 in deep-sea manganese nodules. Buser named it 10 Å manganate beca ...

Hausmannite Hausmannite is a complex oxide of manganese containing both di- and tri-valent manganese. The formula can be represented as Mn2+Mn3+2O4. It belongs to the spinel group and forms tetragonal crystals. Hausmannite is a brown to black metallic minera ...

Manganite Manganite is a mineral composed of manganese oxide-hydroxide, MnO(OH), crystallizing in the monoclinic system (pseudo-orthorhombic). Crystals of manganite are prismatic and deeply striated parallel to their length; they are often grouped togethe ...

Manganosite Manganosite is a rare mineral composed of manganese(II) oxide MnO. It was first described in 1817 for an occurrence in the Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It has also been reported from Langban and Nordmark, Sweden and at Franklin Furna ...

* Psilomelane * Pyrolusite Manganese may also form mixed oxides with other metals : *

Bixbyite Bixbyite is a manganese iron oxide mineral with chemical formula: (Mn,Fe)2O3. The iron/manganese ratio is quite variable and many specimens have almost no iron. It is a metallic dark black with a Mohs hardness of 6.0 - 6.5. It is a somewhat rare ...

, a manganese iron oxide mineral *

Jacobsite Jacobsite is a manganese iron oxide mineral. It is in the spinel group and forms a solid solution series with magnetite. The chemical formula is (Mn,Mg)Fe2O4 or with oxidation states and substitutions: (Mn2+,Fe2+,Mg)(Fe3+,Mn3+)2O4.

, a manganese iron oxide mineral * Columbite *

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, a mineral group close to columbite * Coltan, a mixture of columbite and tantalite *

Galaxite Galaxite, also known as 'mangan-spinel' is an isometric mineral belonging to the spinel group of oxides with the ideal chemical formula . Galaxite is the manganese (Mn) rich endmember of the aluminium (Al) series of the spinel group. Divalent ...

, a spinel mineral * Todorokite, a rare complex hydrous manganese oxide mineral

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