pyrolusite

NOUN
  1. a mineral consisting of manganese dioxide; an important source of manganese
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How To Use pyrolusite In A Sentence

  • Scheele produced chlorine by treating the mineral pyrolusite with hydrochloric acid (HCl).
  • The binoxide, or peroxide, is the black manganese of commerce, and the pyrolusite of mineralogists, and is by far the most abundant of the manganese ores. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
  • The same pyrolusite (binoxide of manganese) cylinder used with the same thin rod of zinc will precipitate 75 per cent. more copper from solution in an hour when caustic potash is used than when sal ammoniac is employed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
  • It never occurs as a free element, but only in ores such as pyrolusite, manganite, psilomelane, and rhodochrosite.
  • The ore, a mixture of ‘psilomelane’ and pyrolusite with much manganiferous limonite, contains masses of cerussite.
  • It never occurs as a free element, but only in ores such as pyrolusite, manganite, psilomelane, and rhodochrosite.
  • The ore, a mixture of ‘psilomelane’ and pyrolusite with much manganiferous limonite, contains masses of cerussite.
  • Acicular crystals and crystal aggregates of pyrolusite are found in vugs in the pegmatites of the district.
  • One special find this week was a chunk of raw glass, showing an unhomogeneous color, probably as a result of an insufficient or failed addition of decolorant in a reduced furnace atmosphere (e.g. manganese in the form of the mineral pyrolusite). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Glass Studies
  • It never occurs as a free element, but only in ores such as pyrolusite, manganite, psilomelane, and rhodochrosite.
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