TAB. LXXXVI. 



MANGANESIUM oxygenizatum, var. 

 Primitivum. 



Oxide of Manganese. 



Class 3. Metals. Order 1. Homogeneous. 



Gen. 2. Manganese. Spec. 2. Oxide. 



Div. 1. Crystallized. Var. 1. Crystal primitive. 



Gen. Char. Spec. Grav. 6.85, somewhat mallea- 

 ble. Colour grayish white, very difficult of fusion, 

 even more so than iron. Colours glass violet. 

 Does not combine with sulphur. 

 Spec. Char. Combined with oxygen. 

 Syn. Manganese mineralized by oxygen, Kirw. v. 2. 

 291. 

 Gray manganese ore, Syst, Min. Jameson. 

 Braunstein. Emmerl. v. 2. 522. 

 Manganese oxyde. Hauy, v. 4. 243. 



Manganese (which was first discovered to be a new me- 

 tal by Bergman), and which has since been found in a na- 

 tive state by Mr. La Perouse, in the valley of Vicdessos, 

 near Sem, in the neighbourhood of Foix, Pyrenees, who 

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