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
  • 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 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
  • The claim was that his new ship, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, was seeking to recover manganese nodules from the seabed.
    Michael Richter, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The manganese sulfide episode echoes a scientific scandal two decades ago at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • One cup of oats has 60% of the daily value for manganese, a mineral needed for the normal functioning of your brain and many of the body’s enzyme systems.
    Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The ratio of manganese to nickel, for example, averages less than 40 to 1.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Cyclops was a large ship and, thanks to the manganese, should have an unusual magnetic signature.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Two flexible manganese copper alloy plates gently bend around your hair, so the shape is retained, rather than smooshed.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 22 Oct. 2023

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