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When was metallic manganese first isolated by Johan Gottlieb Gahn?
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Metallic manganese was first isolated in 1774 by the Swedish mineralogist Johan Gottlieb Gahn. He achieved this by reducing pyrolusite—a manganese dioxide ore—with carbon.12