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Permanganate   Listen
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Permanganate  n.  (Chem.) A salt of permanganic acid.
Potassium permanganate. (Chem.) See Potassium permanganate, under Potassium.






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"Permanganate" Quotes from Famous Books



... charity to sanitation, and was convinced that the mortality among the malgamiters, which had been more than hinted at in the Ferriby family circle, was entirely due to the negligence of the victims in not using an old disinfectant served up in artistic flagons under a new name. Permanganate of potash under another name will not only smell as sweet, but will perform greater sanitary wonders, because the world places faith in a new name, and faith is still the greatest ...
— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman

... of potash or soda. Real indigo can be removed by chloroform, morphine or an aniline salt (indigo and aniline both owe their names to the same Portuguese source), which possess the rare property of dissolving pure indigo. Such combination, if refractory in the presence of permanganate of potash with sulphuric acid, must be followed by an application of sulphurous acid. In like manner, inks composed of by-products of coal tar, can be effectively treated, when irradicable with plain water or ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... Scouts must look out that none of the solution enters the stomach. Of course, there are many antiseptic substances for washing wounds: potash and borax are good, especially in the form of potassium permanganate and boric acid. Anything in a tablet or a powdery form is easier to pack than anything in a liquid form. Wounds must be kept surgically clean, which means "aseptic" or perfectly free of poisoning microbes, or else there may be blood-poisoning. So Scouts ...
— Pluck on the Long Trail - Boy Scouts in the Rockies • Edwin L. Sabin

... in glacial acetic acid solution are heated with permanganate, the resulting sulphonic acid compounds exhibit great similarity to compounds containing free carboxyl groups. The sulphonic acid group may also be directly introduced either by concentrated, or by fuming sulphuric acid, or by elimination ...
— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser



Words linked to "Permanganate" :   salt, permanganate of potash, potassium permanganate



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