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Meanings of permanganate of potash in English

Portuguese
permanganato de potássio
Catalan
permanganat de potassa

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.

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        Examples for "potassium permanganate"
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        A sort of fun explosive is potassium permanganate mixed with powdered sugar.
        Fight Club
        2
        By gentle oxidation with potassium permanganate it may be converted into glycerin.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        3
        Water solutions of boric acid, potassium permanganate and hydrogen peroxide are recommended.
        Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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        In the past, I've had great success using potassium permanganate combined with sugar.
        Survive!: essential skills and tactics to get you out of anywher...
        5
        Soda lime and potassium permanganate and nickel salts were among the neutralizers used.
        Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Ch...
        Usage of permanganate of potash in English
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        A solution of twenty-per-cent permanganate of potash should be used to wash the wound.
        The Mother and Her Child
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        The affected fowls were also treated by dipping the heads in a solution of permanganate of potash.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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        Use some simple remedy like coal oil or permanganate of potash to cleanse the throat and nostrils.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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        Carbolic I-30, Platt's chlorides, permanganate of potash, or something that will answer the purpose; bichloride of mercury, etc.
        Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses
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        He opened up the wound and rubbed in permanganate of potash to oxidize the venom and destroy its toxic properties.
        Stories from Everybody's Magazine
        6
        A strong solution of permanganate of potash put on with a brush will darken any wood; it has no fumes.
        The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
        7
        Harrisson carved an excellent set of chessmen, distinguishing the "black" ones by a stain of permanganate of potash.
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
        8
        The most perfect cleanliness must be enjoined, and disinfectants used, such as permanganate of potash, carbolic acid, Pearson's, or Izal.
        Dogs and All about Them
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        Place two ounces of crystals of permanganate of potash in a pan and have a pint bottle of formalin near by.
        The Mother and Her Child
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        But I saw him in the surgery five minutes afterwards, with Doctor Goodhue scarifying the wounds and injecting permanganate of potash.
        The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
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        Get one ounce of permanganate of potash and pour a quart of boiling water over; after it is cold, bottle for use.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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        An aqueous solution of permanganate of potash yields with baryta-water a violet mixture, which afterwards becomes colourless, and deposits a blue precipitate.
        Field's Chromatography / or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as ...
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        Such combination, if refractory in the presence of permanganate of potash with sulphuric acid, must be followed by an application of sulphurous acid.
        Forty Centuries of Ink / Or, A chronological narrative concernin...
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        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 o...
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        Until the disease is eliminated from the premises, keep permanganate of potash in the drinking water of all the fowls, both sick and well.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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        The titration may be done with a standard solution of (1) permanganate of potash, or (2) bichromate of potash.
        A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
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