Manganese, the hidden giant

so you've probably heard of the metal manganese but did you know that manganese is in fact one of the most used Metals in the world it's essential for the production of Steel it's also increasingly used in batteries for electric vehicles geologically speaking manganese or formation is also quite a special process so let's have a look at

manganese manganese is the most widely consumed metal in the world after iron and aluminium but most of its uses are hidden from view over 90% of the manganese used annually goes into metallurgical applications primarily steel making in fact you can't make steel without manganese adding manganese to the alloy is essential to remove imp purities such

as sulfur and oxygen which weaken the steel you only need a couple of perent manganese in steel to make it stronger but for applications that need very strong steel up to around 133% manganese can be added other applications for manganese include animal feeds and fertilizers coloring agents in bricks Ceramics and paints or as an oxidizing

agent in the chemical industry and of course manganese is used in certain types of batteries so manganese is very important for our modern society and it's increasingly important now with the development new battery technologies manganese is already used widely in batteries for example you probably have a lithium ion manganese oxide battery in

your phone or laptop and most electric cars are powered by lithium ion batteries with nickel manganese Cobalt cathodes in fact manganese is as important as the lithium nickel and Cobalt in these batteries as the performance and the stability of lithium batteries would not be the same without these other metals but manganese is set to become