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		kumarvvr on Oct 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlo... > potassium permanganate What ! Are you sure? That would be deadly.

dilawar on Oct 1, 2023 [–]

Now I read the Wikipedia article about it. It doesn’t look the same. I remember it being white in colour while kmno4 is purple. Definitely I am recalling the name wrong.

gorjusborg on Oct 1, 2023 | [–]

Could you mean potassium nitrate?

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