NOUN
- 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
How To Use permanganate of potash In A Sentence
- Antimonious is converted into antimonic chloride by treatment with permanganate of potash in an acid solution. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
- She added a small packet of permanganate of potash that was nearby on a shelf, then she filled her water-bottle. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
- For fear of poison, Sheldon had immediately scarified the wound and injected permanganate of potash; but in spite of the precaution the shoulder was swelling rapidly. Chapter 24
- The labels apprise me of their contents: molybdenite of ammonia, chloride of antimony, permanganate of potash and ever so many other strange terms. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
- On allowing the solution to stand exposed to the air, it rapidly becomes blue, violet, purple, and finally red, by the gradual conversion of the manganate into the permanganate of potash; and on account of these changes of color the black mass has received the name of mineral chameleon. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883