PERMANGANATE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("permanganate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "permanganate"):

permanganate of potash; potassium permanganate (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)

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