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Definition of Permanganate of potash
1. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Permanganate Of Potash
Literary usage of Permanganate of potash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1855)
"... standard solution of the permanganate of potash was constantly changing, and
that it was therefore necessary frequently to affix a fresh value to it. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"This will usually check fetor also ; but if it does not, salicylic acid or
permanganate of potash in one-half or one per cent, solutions, may be employed. ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"permanganate of potash. Dr. Beranger-Feraud, of the French navy, after trying
... and says: "I made use of a solution of permanganate of potash, ..."
4. A systematic handbook of volumetric analysis or, The quantitative estimation by Francis Sutton (1863)
"Permanganate of Potash. KO+Mn2 0i = 158-25. § 43. THE solution of this salt is
best prepared for analysis by dissolving the pure crystals in distilled water ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1859)
"permanganate of potash AS A DEODORIZER. ... in a communication to the London
Lancet, highly recommends permanganate of potash as a powerful deodorant, ..."
6. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"In permanganate of potash we have an agent which, by means of its strong oxidizing
properties, has the power of destroying organic material. ..."
7. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1850)
"B. permanganate of potash.—1. One part of peroxide of manganese is ignited ...
The mother-liquor of the permanganate of potash yields crystals of chloride ..."
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