How to Use manganese in a Sentence

manganese

noun
  • The firm owns coal and manganese mines as well as aluminum smelters in South Africa.
    Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • The team has also been able to find steel shards and wire made of manganese and platinum.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • In the late 1800s, the island was used to mine manganese, the eponymous red rock, for paint pigment.
    Heather Knight, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The blade on this Spear Head shovel is made of durable carbon manganese steel.
    Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2023
  • The drug interrupts this process by binding to the manganese ions.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • South Africa has the world’s biggest reserves of platinum, chrome ore and manganese.
    Liezel Hill, Bloomberg.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • On the left, a nickel cobalt manganese battery cell; on the right, a lithium iron phosphate cell.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Maybe the lithium and manganese in the water had melted away all purpose.
    Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The design was basic, just a sheet of manganese steel pressed into a bowl shape, weighing about a pound and a half.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2019
  • Press the person’s skin (or sea lion skin, in a pinch) back on, and paint it with black manganese or, in later eras, red ocher.
    Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Other parts of the caves revealed layers of red iron, white calcite and gray manganese.
    Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 20 June 2021
  • In towns near the mines, many other doctors declined to talk to reporters about manganese.
    Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • If the soil pH is not in the 5 to 6.5 range, iron and manganese deficiencies may appear as a yellowing of the foliage.
    Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 20 July 2024
  • The palette includes blue, green, manganese, red, sepia, and, coming this fall, mustard.
    Halee Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The color rocks found at the site were manganese and ocher, perfect for making black and red, respectively.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2018
  • When the pH level is higher than 7.5, many plants will struggle to get enough phosphorus, iron and manganese.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The effects of high levels of manganese on the brain have been documented since the 19th century.
    Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 4 May 2018
  • The drug blocks an enzyme containing the metal manganese.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The superfood contains 57% more protein than English walnuts, have high amounts of omega-3 and manganese, and are on trend as non-GMO and gluten-free.
    Claire Perez, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The mine was once used to produce an iron manganese tungstate mineral for craft light bulb filament.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 25 July 2019
  • The seeds are rich in phosphorus, potassium, protein, manganese, folate, healthy fats, iron, and zinc, and are an easy way to give a dish more fiber.
    Lauren Manaker, Verywell Health, 24 July 2023
  • One of the rail car lines that miners use to probe deep into the hilly terrain in and around Chiatura, in western Georgia, to extract manganese ore.
    Ken Stier, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
  • One took advantage of grains of the mineral manganese oxide that formed when the surface was first exposed to rain.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
  • That status already is applied to manganese, zinc, lithium and more.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The seafloor here is covered in rock-like polymetallic nodules rich in nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Kloppers pushed hard to shift the pricing of first manganese, and then iron ore and coal, toward spot markets that more closely track supply and demand.
    David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Anthony solved the problem by using a better grade of manganese in the battery to reduce the swelling, and then encasing the battery in steel.
    Randy Alfred, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2012
  • All varieties are a very good source for dietary fiber, vitamins A, C and K, plus folate and manganese.
    Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 18 July 2017
  • At his studio there, Gates had shown me rooms of ceramics and pointed out techniques — cobalt-and-red iron shino glazes, mustard washes, manganese stains.
    Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • This typically happens when pipes age, allowing manganese, zinc, iron, or copper to enter the water.
    Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024

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