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manganite

manganite

1 9.9
A black or dark brown mineral people mine to get a metal used to make steel
  • noun
  • /ˈmæŋɡəˌnaɪt/
  • Specialized
: manganita
  • The geologist identified a sample of manganite during the mineral survey.
  • lanthanum manganite

Examples

  • In some industrial applications, manganite is valued for its high manganese content.

  • Similarly, the lanthanum manganite air electrode must be a good conductor and porous enough for oxygen to pass through it.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Those articles, published between 1951 and 1960 (with three in the same issue of Physical Review), investigated the double exchange mechanism in Perovskite manganites, the mechanism responsible for the phenomenon of colossal magnetoresistance.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Manganite is often used as a source of manganese in the production of steel.

Surface Forms

manganite singular
manganites plural

Morphology

manganite = manganese (semi-transparent) = mangan + ite

Form is clearly manganese + the mineral-forming suffix '-ite', but recognizing it denotes a mineral requires familiarity with mineral-naming conventions.

Etymology

Manganite is built from the metal name manganese and the mineral ending -ite, which often means 'rock' or 'mineral' and appears in words like graphite. So manganite is literally a 'manganese rock', which explains why it is a mineral used as a source of manganese.