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Several initiatives highlighted the denim industry’s complicated use of potassium permanganate, also known as PP spray.—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 31 Dec. 2024 Additionally, the potassium permanganate replacement is easy to manage in production.—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2024 Additionally, Crescent replaces pumice stones with ceramic stones and finishes garments with cleaner alternatives to potassium permanganate spray.—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2024 Since 2019, 100 percent of its denim is made without potassium permanganate.—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2024 The residue bore traces of gold, potassium permanganate and copper, which Dr. Poliński thinks may have been left by a potion concocted to treat her ailments.—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023 Univar also stored chemicals next to each other that shouldn’t have been next to each other, like sulfuric acid next to potassium hydroxide and ammonium hydroxide and nitric acid next to potassium permanganate, ammonium persulfate, and hydrogen peroxide, according to the EPA’s allegations.—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2023 Another group exposed nanotubes to sulfuric acid and potassium permanganate, a strong oxidizing agent, which strained the carbon bonds and caused the tubes to unzip lengthwise, as shown here.—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010 Pingpong-like balls filled with potassium permanganate and injected with glycol are dropped from the air.—Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 7 Jan. 2021
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