Potassium permanganate pills were used by Rogers (1913) in cholera cases to neutralize the toxins of the cholera vibrio, and 'permanganate is commonly used to disinfect clothes, well water and tank water, cholera stools, etc., during an epidemic. Hands also are often washed with permanganate solutions after attending cholera cases. There are various old references to potassium permanganate in d...

Severe potassium permanganate poisoning (more than 10 g of potassium permanganate) is invariably associated with massive systemic upset and death. Multiple organ damage has been recognized as an inevitable consequence of such an overdose, although pancreatitis has not been previously reported. Death due to cardiovascular collapse and profound hypotension is a common end point in those who reach...

BACKGROUND Potassium permanganate is used clinically as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. Ingestion of potassium permanganate may result in damage to the upper gastrointestinal tract. Burns and ulceration of the mouth, esophagus and stomach occur due to its action. Emergency endoscopy is useful to assess the severity of damage and also to guide management. METHODS We reported a patient pres...

High efficiency enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulose to produce fermentable sugar is important for bioconversion lignocellulosic biomass liquid fuels and chemicals. In this study, a simple pretreatment with potassium permanganate used enhance the organosolv corn stover. It testified that, compared single pretreatment, KMnO4 assisted significantly increase yields carbohydrates through decreasi...

the kinetics of mn(vii) oxidation of lysine in moderately sulfuric acid solutions was studiedspectrophotometrically in the presence and absence of mn(ii) as catalyst. the reaction was arrangedto be under pseudo first-order condition with respect to mn(vii). the results showed that the pseudofirst-order rate constant increases with increasing [h2so4], [(mn)ii], and [lysine]. the dependence ofthe...

In order to improve adsorption capacity of granular activated carbon (GAC), potassium permanganate was used to react with GAC to change the surface properties and improve the adsorption capacity of GAC. By batch experiments, improvement of adsorption capacity of potassium permanganate modified GAC (GACM) was studied. The influence of adsorption time, temperature, ratio of phenol with GAC/GACM, ...

Whilst chemical cleavage of mismatch (CCM) detects all point mutations in DNA, its widespread use has been hampered by the complex multistage methodology and the need for toxic chemicals, in particular osmium tetroxide. Here we show that osmium tetroxide can be replaced by potassium permanganate, giving the same spectrum of mutation detection, but with greater sensitivity. The use of potassium ...