Potassium+Permanganate

Potassium Permanganate
====Potassium Permanganate is prounouced PO TASS E UM PER MAN GA NAYT. The chemical formula is KMnO4.  The common name of this compound is called Condy's crystals. With a nickname like this, it makes it sound like a kind of candy. Another one of the nickinames it has is permanganate of potash, which sounds like a potato. Potassium Permangenate is a inorganic compund and is a kind of salt. Although it sounds like a edible salt it is not. ==== ====This compound has a bunch of uses. Potassium Permanganate is used to control taste,odor,remove color and to remove iron and manganese. Although this compound is useful it stains and irritates skin. This compound can also be toxic and has a tendency of giving water the color pink. ==== ====For movies, this compound used as a chemical makes props look aged, its effects creates ancient looks. This chemical were used on the props and sets of "Troy" ,"Indiana Jones", and "300". This compound also helps with medical treatment. Potassium permanganate dissolved in water makes a purple soulution which helps with fungal infections of the hand and feet, dermatitis, and eczema. ==== Potassium Permanganate is also a disinfectant. This chemical is used to remove iron from well water. This compound also can be used to perserve fruit. This compound doubles the fruit ripening period. If you need a fire starter than Potassium Permangante is the perfect starter. If stuck in snow, this chemical can also give distress signals. This compound was made when Johann Rudolf Glauber tried to mix a mineral called pryolusite and potassium carbonate, when dissolve in water, it was hoped for a green soulution but came out to a voilet then red. Two hundred years later a london chemist named Henry Bollmann Condy, fused prylusite and sodium hydroxide and ended up with a name marketed as Condy's Fluid. This compound is broken down when exposed to light.

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