Why is potassium permanganate purple?
Source: tatoeba (3440052)
Permanganate
Synonyms for "permanganate" (4 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (1)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- permanganat noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Czech
1 entries- manganistan noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Danish
2 entries- kaliumpermanganat noun (potassium permanganate)
- permanganat noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Finnish
1 entries- permanganaatti noun (salt of permanganic acid)
German
1 entries- Permanganat noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Italian
1 entries- permanganato noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Māori
1 entries- pāhare konupango noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Portuguese
1 entries- permanganato noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Romanian
1 entries- permanganat noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Russian
1 entries- пермангана́т noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Spanish
1 entries- permanganato noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Tagalog
1 entries- permangganato noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Welsh
1 entries- permanganad noun (salt of permanganic acid)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
My finger turned brown after I dipped it in a slightly concentrated solution of potassium permanganate.
Source: tatoeba (3458758)
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.