Mangar The Magical Alchemical Wizard With Manganese Magic: Element 25 — Magical Elementals Chemistry Fantasy Series

Manganese

This is the front side of the game card for Mangar The Wizard With The Manganese Tipped Staff. Click the pic to take a look at all the fun info on the back. Use it as a memorization tool, a trading card or as science class prizes and rewards.

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1 – https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/25/manganese

2 – https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/npi/substances/fact-sheets/manganese-compounds

3 – https://byjus.com/question-answer/where-is-manganese-ore-commonly-found-igneous-rockssedimentary-rocksmetamorphic-rockssalt-beds/

4 – https://periodictable.com/Elements/025/data.html

5 – https://infinitylearn.com/surge/chemistry/manganese/#:~:text=Manganese%20is%20a%20soft%2C%20silver,it%20is%20attracted%20to%20magnets.

6 –https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/25/manganese#:~:text=Manganese%20is%20the%20fifth%20most%20abundant%20metal%20in%20the%20Earth’s%20crust.

7 – https://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/mn.htm

8 – https://www.britannica.com/technology/manganese-processing

9 – https://home.wgnhs.wisc.edu/minerals/manganite/

10 – https://www.allmineralsrock.com/details/manganite

Free Mangar The Alchemical Wizard Coloring Page – Just right-click and saveas.

Mangar/Manganese Tee Shirt available in kids and adult sizes.

Mangar has his novelette inspired by the real science behind Manganese. Bonus Teacher Lesson Plan Included.

Links and Notes for Mangar’s chemistry inspired magical abilities:

Manganese oxidation states and the green-to-violet color shift (Mangar’s orb)

Mangar’s orb cycling from stable green Mn(II) to a violet-edged, highly oxidizing Mn(VII) state at moments of maximum power — mirrors real manganese chemistry closely. Manganese genuinely has an unusually wide range of oxidation states (+2 through +7), and the permanganate ion (Mn in the +7 state) is famous for both its deep violet-purple color and its strength as an oxidizer.

Manganese “purifying” sulfide contamination (the desulfurization climax)

Mangar’s final act — dissolving sulfide coatings and reversing sulfide contamination in the ley lines — draws directly on manganese’s real industrial role in steelmaking, where it’s added specifically to bind and remove sulfur impurities from molten metal.

Sulfide as a corrosive, weakening agent (the Corroded Ones’ weaponized coating)

The villain’s use of sulfide treatment to make weapons and infrastructure brittle and “corroded” has a real basis in sulfidation corrosion, a well-documented failure mode where sulfur compounds attack and degrade metal.

The Nodule Fields (manganese nodules beneath the Sulfur Flats)

Polymetallic (manganese) nodules are an actual deep-sea phenomenon: rounded mineral accretions of manganese, iron, nickel, and copper that grow around a seed particle over millions of years at millimeter-per-million-year rates, exactly as described in Chapter Eight.