VOA-Sparrow Clinic The VOA-Sparrow Clinic is a collaboration between Volunteers of America and Sparrow Hospital, providing both physical and mental health care to the homeless in the Lansing area. Their location is 430 N Larch in Lansing.
Answers. Best Answer: Proposed to be an element by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774, manganese was discovered by Johan Gottlieb Gahn, a Swedish chemist, by heating the mineral pyrolusite (MnO2) in the presence of charcoal later that year.
Elements and Periodic Table History. Manganese in the form of the black ore pyrolucite (manganese dioxide, MnO 2) was used by the pre-historic cave painters of the Lascaux region of France around 30,000 years ago. In more recent times was used by glass makers to remove the pale greenish tint of natural glass.