About Ignatius Gottfried Kaim
Lived 1746 – 1778 (aged 31–32). Ignatius Gottfried Kaim was an Austrian chemist and mineralogist, known for Manganese.
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. 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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Austrian chemist
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Ignatius Gottfried Kaim was born in 1746.
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Ignatius Gottfried Kaim died in 1778.
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Ignatius Gottfried Kaim was a chemist and mineralogist.
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Ignatius Gottfried Kaim was known for Manganese.
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Ignatius Gottfried Kaim was Austrian.
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