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Ignatius Gottfried Kaim
Austrian chemist · Scientists · Lived 1746 to 1778 · aged 32
Ignatius Gottfried Kaim was a chemist from the Holy Roman Empire. 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.
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This is the first description of manganese metal several years before the better known synthesis of Johan Gottlieb Gahn in 1774.
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Lived 1746 to 1778 · aged 32