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Potassium permanganate   Listen
Potassium permanganate

noun
1.
A poisonous salt that forms dark purple crystals and is purple-red when dissolved in water; used as an oxidizing and bleaching agent and as a disinfectant and antiseptic.  Synonym: permanganate of potash.





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... the cobra poison is destroyed by potassium permanganate; but this is no argument in favor of that salt as an antidote. Mr. Pedler also refers to it, but allows that it would not be probably of any use after the poison had been absorbed. Of this I think there can be no doubt, remembering the ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various


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