Fireworks usually include gunpowder, but a hobbyist has made this rather impressive bang using potassium permanganate in lieu of the more traditional ingredient. Permanganate is a purple crystal which ...

I recently saw the commercial for the new Survivor Man episodes where Wes takes glycerin and pours a couple drops on potassium permanganate to start a fire.<br><br>I ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A staple of chemistry classroom demonstrations may offer a solution for cleaning up decades' worth of toxic solvents polluting the environment, new research suggests. Potassium ...

Addition of a liquid to a crystalline substance produces smoke an intense violet flames. Set up a heat resistant mat next to an operating vent in the bench top. Add 10 to 15 drops of glycerol to the ...

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WHEN small portions of pure cultures of Phytophthora erythroseptica are transferred to water, conidiophores and conidia (zoosporangia) usually develop from the mycelium after a few days, and this ...

Sieve tube "slime" is probably fibrillar as suggested by other workers. The granular material seen in electron micrographs of sieve tubes "fixed" with potassium permanganate is mostly a precipitate ...