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Oppong
Oppong is an Ashanti surname that originates in the Ashanti City-State. Notable people with the Ashanti surname include:
- Dominic Oppong (born 1986), Ghanaian-born Canadian soccer player
- Frank Oppong (born 1979), Ghanaian boxer
- George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah (or George Weah) (born 1966), Liberian humanitarian, politician and footballer
- Samad Oppong (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer
Category:Surnames of Ashanti origin
Usage examples of "oppong".
This root, and the flowers, have an odour of anise, which is due to their containing some volatile oil identical with mannite.
The chief constituent of Manna is a peculiar, crystallizable, sweet principle called Mannite or Manna Sugar, present to the extent of about 70 per cent.
According to Volg, Phamacognisie, 1892, it is still used in Central Europe in veterinary medicine, and Ludwig and Busse (1869) found it to contain mannite, mycose, pectin, mycogum, mycodextrin and mycoinulin.