C. Gonzalez et al., APPLICATION OF DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY TO THE REDUCTION OF SEVERAL MANGANESE OXIDES, JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY, 52(3), 1998, pp. 985-989
The aim of this work was to study the thermal transitions of several m
anganese oxides (MnO, MnOOH, Mn2O3, Mn3O4 and MnO2) under reducing con
ditions. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was used to analyse t
he transitions of some oxides into others. A comparison of the behavio
r of the synthetic samples with that of a natural manganese dioxide de
monstrated that DSC is a quick tool for the distinction of natural man
ganese dioxide from synthetic gamma-MnO2 from other manganese oxides.