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  • noun Plural form of permanganate.

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Examples

  • ~ The permanganates are remarkable for their strong oxidizing properties.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • All other permanganates, as well as permanganic acid itself, give solutions of the same color.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • While these acids are of little interest, some of their salts, especially the permanganates, are important compounds.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • Owing to the steady relative fall in the selling prices of the permanganates these are coming into more extensive use, but the consumption is still small, and they are mainly used for certain special effects, chiefly in linen or more generally flax cloth bleaching.

    Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross

  • The products described were obtained by the action of hypochlorites and permanganates upon Swedish filter paper (Schleicher and Schüll).

    Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross

  • This view receives some support from the fact that the interaction of the H_ {2} O_ {2} with permanganates has now been established to be an oxidation of the H_ {2} of the peroxide by the permanganate oxidation, with liberation, therefore, of the O_ {2} of the peroxide as an unresolved molecule [Baeyer].

    Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross

  • This retains its colour after washing and drying, but cannot be recommended as a pigment, being liable to suffer in contact with organic substances, which deoxidize and decolourize the manganates and permanganates.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • (dioxides, bichromates, permanganates, &c.) are determined in a similar way.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

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