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Ignatius Gottfried Kaim

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Nationality
  
Austrian

Died
  
1778, Austria

Role
  
Chemist


Name
  
Ignatius Kaim

Known for
  
discovery of manganese

Discovered
  
Manganese

Ignatius Gottfried Kaim was an Austrian chemist. In his dissertation De metallis dubiis published in 1770 Kaim describes the reduction of manganese oxide with carbon and the formation of a brittle metal. This is the first description of managanese metal several years before the better known synthesis of Johan Gottlieb Gahn in 1774.

References

Ignatius Gottfried Kaim Wikipedia