Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun potassium_permanganate

1 sense of potassium permanganate

Sense 1
potassium permanganate, permanganate of potash -- (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)
       => permanganate -- (a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic)