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Meaning of potassium permanganate in English:

potassium permanganate

noun

Chemistry

  • Potassium manganate(vii), KMnO₄, a purple-brown solid (intensely purple in solution) used as an oxidizing agent and in chemical analysis.

Origin

Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Roscoe (1833–1915), chemist and university administrator.