manganese nodules in English

noun
1
a small concretion consisting of manganese and iron oxides, occurring in large numbers in ocean-floor sediment.
Crusts of iron-manganese oxides and manganese nodules occur, particularly in red clays.

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1. And unlike with manganese nodules, the technology to extract the sulphides is not available.

2. Hydrogenous (Authigenous) sediment-Formed by the precipitation of chemicals in sea water (sometimes with bacteria) ex: manganese nodules, phosphorites, glauconite

3. We have developed the process of liquid-phase oxidation to dispose seabed manganese nodules, and studied the leaching-out of manganese from nodules.

4. Mero stated that these metals occurred in deposits of manganese nodules, which appear as lumps of compressed flowers on the seafloor at depths of about 5,000 m.

5. Polymetallic nodules (also known as manganese nodules) are potato-shaped, largely porous nodules found in abundance carpeting the sea floor of world oceans in deep sea.

6. Google Scholar Chukhrov FV, Gorshkov VA, Drits VA, Shterenberg Ye, Sivtsov AV, Sakharov BA (1983) Mixed-layer Asbolite-buserite minerals and Asbolites in oceanic iron-manganese nodules.

7. Manganese nodules with interesting values of Ni, Cu, Co are generated on abyssal plains formed during the advanced drift stage, in particular in areas of extremely low sedimentation.

8. Authigenic sediment, deep-sea sediment that has been formed in place on the seafloor. The most significant Authigenic sediments in modern ocean basins are metal-rich sediments and manganese nodules