dvi-manganese

English

Etymology

From dvi- +‎ manganese.

Noun

dvi-manganese (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) rhenium
    • 2001 April 16, J. Michael Davis, “Manganese and Rhenium”, in Patty's Toxicology, →DOI:
      Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.
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