Manganês

The manganese is a brilliant, hard gray metal and it is rusted superficially in contact with the air, losing the shine. It is a transition metal and it belongs to the Group 7 of the Periodic Table.

The manganese is an abundant metal that it happens in the form of minerals. A strategic element is considered in the world economy, because he has wide commercial use and unequal geographical distribution. It is also, an important element for animal and vegetable life.

Use

• Special steels

• In the production of safes

• Leagues with aluminum (Al) and antimony (Sb)

• The dioxide of manganese is a glass descolorizador with sludges of iron

• Placement of glasses in the color of the amethyst (violet), he is responsible for the color of the true amethyst

• The permanganatos are agents strong oxidizers and they are used in quantitative analysis and in medicine

• His dioxide is used in the chemical preparation of oxygen, chlorine and in the drying of black paints