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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Min.)

A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr.

Braun

of Gotha.

braunite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural braunites)

(mineralogy) A silicate mineral containing divalent and trivalent manganese and forming grey-black tetragonal crystals.