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  2. Mendeleev's predicted elements - Wikipedia

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    For example, germanium was called eka-silicon until its discovery in 1886, and rhenium was called dvi-manganese before its discovery in 1926. The eka-prefix was used by other theorists, and not only in Mendeleev's own predictions. Before the discovery, francium was referred to as eka-caesium, and astatine as eka-iodine.

  3. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    41 of the 118 known elements have names associated with, or specifically named for, places around the world or among astronomical objects. 32 of these have names tied to the places on Earth, and the other nine are named after to Solar System objects: helium for the Sun; tellurium for the Earth; selenium for the Moon; mercury (indirectly), uranium, neptunium and plutonium after their respective ...

  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2016 January 14 ...

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    At least rhenium was called dvi-manganese (because eka-manganese, i.e. technetium, wasn't known either). Icek~enwiki ( talk ) 00:22, 15 January 2016 (UTC) [ reply ] There is and was no reason to use the higher numbers when the lower number could be used; hence you might see element 115 called eka-bismuth today, but certainly not dvi-antimony.

  5. Manganism - Wikipedia

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    In these lawsuits, welders have accused the manufacturers of failing to provide adequate warning that their products could cause welding fumes to contain dangerously high manganese concentrations that could lead welders to develop manganism. Companies employing welders are also being sued, for what colloquially is known as "welders' disease."

  6. Manganese cycle - Wikipedia

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    Terrestrial manganese has existed since the formation of Earth around 4.6 Ga. [28] The Sun and the Solar System formed during the collapse of a molecular cloud populated with many trace metals, including manganese. [29] The chemical composition of the molecular cloud determined the composition of the many celestial bodies that form within it. [29]

  7. Metal aquo complex - Wikipedia

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    In the absence of isotopic labeling, the reaction is degenerate, meaning that the free energy change is zero. Rates vary over many orders of magnitude. Rates vary over many orders of magnitude. The main factor affecting rates is charge: highly charged metal aquo cations exchange their water more slowly than singly charged cations.

  8. Manganese in biology - Wikipedia

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    Manganese is also important in photosynthetic oxygen evolution in chloroplasts in plants. The oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) is a part of photosystem II contained in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts; it is responsible for the terminal photooxidation of water during the light reactions of photosynthesis , and has a metalloenzyme core ...

  9. Chemical chameleon - Wikipedia

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    The chemical chameleon reaction shows the process in reverse, by reducing violet potassium permanganate first to green potassium manganate and eventually to brown manganese dioxide: [1] [2] [5] KMnO 4 (violet) → K 2 MnO 4 (green) → MnO 2 (brown/yellow suspension) Blue potassium hypomanganate may also form as an intermediate. [6]