can anyone give me an idea on how manganese can be determined quantitavely from rocks? thanks!?

Question

should i employ titration?spectroscopy?

Answer 1

I found a site that shows that spectroscopy could be a good method to determine manganese in rocks.

Hope it helps you:

http://www.varianinc.com/image/vimage/docs/products/spectr/aa/atworks/aa047.pdf

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Good luck!

Answer 2

Chess found a good site. You can also use ICP with that method. The other method is XRF analysis of powder made from the rock.