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    Pyrolusite is a mineral consisting essentially of manganese dioxide (MnO2) and is important as an ore of manganese. It is a black, amorphous appearing...
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    investigated barium in pyrolusite: Scheele (1774). "Om brunsten, eller magnesia, och dess egenskaper" [On brown-stone [i.e., pyrolusite] or magnesia, and its...
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    formula MnO 2. This blackish or brown solid occurs naturally as the mineral pyrolusite, which is the main ore of manganese and a component of manganese nodules...
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    under the same conditions and having the same commercial applications as pyrolusite. It is found at many localities; amongst those which have yielded typical...
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    chert, producing conchoidal fracture. Dendritic manganese oxides such as pyrolusite and/or iron oxides such as limonite may precipitate along rock crevices...
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    aquarium fish. In 1659, Johann Rudolf Glauber fused a mixture of the mineral pyrolusite (manganese dioxide, MnO2) and potassium carbonate to obtain a material...
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    discovery. Scheele produced chlorine by reacting MnO2 (as the mineral pyrolusite) with HCl: 4 HCl + MnO2 → MnCl2 + 2 H2O + Cl2 Scheele observed several...
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    nature but far rarer in synthetic chemistry. The most common Mn ore, pyrolusite, is MnO2. It is the dark brown pigment of many cave drawings but is also...
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    association with calcite, barite, and siderite. Often associated with pyrolusite, braunite, hausmannite and goethite. Manganite occurs in specimens exhibiting...
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  • hydroxide 1310-97-0 MnOOH manganite 1310-98-1 MnO2 manganese dioxide pyrolusite 1313-13-9 MnO4− permanganate ion 14333-13-2 MnPb8(Si2O7)3 barysilate MnS...
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  • Manganosite, MnIIO Psilomelane, Ba(MnII)(MnIV)8O16(OH)4, or (Ba,H2O)2Mn5O10 Pyrolusite, MnIVO2 Manganese may also form mixed oxides with other metals : Bixbyite...
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  • associated with various iron oxides. Specific mineral varieties include pyrolusite, lithiophorite, nsutite, takanelite and vernadite. Wad can be considered...
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    red (iron oxide, hematite, or red ochre) and black (manganese dioxide, pyrolusite), though black from juniper or pine carbons has also been discovered....
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    are red, orange, or yellow, black gossans from manganese oxides such as pyrolusite, manganite, and especially psilomelane form at the oxidized portion of...
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  • is used as flux for blast furnaces, while others such as wolframite, pyrolusite, and chromite are used in making ferrous alloys. Important non-ferrous...
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  • sorosilicates) Purpurite Putnisite Pyrargyrite Pyrite Pyrochlore (mineral group) Pyrolusite Pyromorphite Pyrope Pyrophanite Pyrophyllite Pyroxene (group of silicate...
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    appropriate levels of manganese and smelting them directly, or by adding pyrolusite or manganite to previously smelted iron in a cupola furnace. Spathic iron...
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    Africa and Namibia where it is associated with other manganese oxides, pyrolusite and psilomelane and the iron-manganese mineral bixbyite. Wilhelm Haidinger...
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    Normal aurorite in calcite with pyrolusite Hydrous silver calcium manganese oxide, from Aurora Mine in the Treasure Hill district...
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    γ-MnOOH, and Their Relations to the Manganese Dioxides Ramsdellite and Pyrolusite". Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 133 (2): 486–500. doi:10.1006/jssc...
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    Example of a dendrite on pyrolusite....
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  • potassium permanganate when he noted that manganese dioxide (as the mineral pyrolusite) could be reacted at high temperatures with alkali to obtain a material...
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    manufacturing Pyrolusite (MnO2) in oxidized manganese zones like laterites and skarns; manganite (MnO(OH)) and braunite (3Mn2O3 MnSiO3) with pyrolusite Mercury...
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    fillings in veins and vugs. It occurs in association with hollandite, pyrolusite, nsutite, braunite, chalcophanite, manganite and various other manganese...
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  • Palladinite Pdn Pauladamsite Pad Phosphogartrellite Pgtl Pošepnýite Pšý Pyrolusite Pyl Palladium Pd Paulingite-Ca Pau-Ca Phosphohedyphane Phdy Posnjakite...
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    titanium; other examples include cassiterite (SnO2; ore of tin), and pyrolusite (MnO2; ore of manganese). In hydroxides, the dominant anion is the hydroxyl...
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  • mineral. Akhtenskite is a polymorphous with the much more widespread pyrolusite. It occurs in mixtures with "psilomelane" (recently renamed to romanechite)...
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    Ditetragonal dipyramidal 4/mmm D4h *224 [2,4] centrosymmetric rutile, pyrolusite, zircon P4/mmm, P4/mcc, P4/nbm, P4/nnc, P4/mbm, P4/mnc, P4/nmm, P4/ncc...
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    Typical associated minerals include hausmannite, galaxite, braunite, pyrolusite, coronadite, hematite and magnetite. It is a ferrimagnetic substance,...
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    Fe2O3); the yellows from limonite (FeO(OH)·nH2O); and the purples are from pyrolusite (MnO2). More than 400 native plant species live in the park. The three...
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