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 manganese metal several years before the better known synthesis of
Johan Gottlieb Gahn in 1774.
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1746 births
1778 deaths
Austrian chemists
Discoverers of chemical elements
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