potassium permanganate

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymspermanganate of potash

   Broaderpermanganate

Questions about potassium permanganate

What does potassium permanganate mean?

potassium permanganate means "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".

What is another word for potassium permanganate?

Close synonyms include permanganate of potash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is potassium permanganate a common word?

potassium permanganate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.