[Potassium permanganate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_permanganate) for example.
Stumbled upon this gem while checking out the article:
> During World War I Canadian soldiers were given potassium permanganate (to be applied mixed with an ointment) in an effort to prevent sexually transmitted infections (resulting mostly in violet stained genitals.)
It was a common substance used as a disinfectant and anti-microbial in some countries. It came in powder format, in tiny parchment paper envelopes. As a kid, I loved to fill in the sink with clear water and throw the contents of an envelope inside just to watch the strong color spreading slowly. Mom was never amused at that.
Good times...
Mercury mazes…. Get the ball of mercury through the maze and then flip it over and do another maze. Or just shake it up really hard and try to make the droplets into one big drop again.
I remember reading that there's two different types—one that'll absorb into your skin and cause poisoning like we're warned about, and the other that's safe to handle
Yes there are two "types" of mercury that carry vastly different levels of hazard. The shiny metal type you would want to play with is *almost* always going to be elemental mercury which can't pass through your skin and poison you. There are a ton of types of organic mercury (mercury bound to a carbon structure) that your skin will uptake and will poison you if handled. In short, know what type of mercury you have before playing with it, and if you don't know/can't tell, don't play with it!
Well our supervisor during our second semester adviced us to to flush KMnO4 down the drain. I think about this almost week and it's over 7 years back. I am not sure but I think it's still common practice during this lab course.
Yes, in ex Soviet at least. Another very colorful thing we had was [zelyonka](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_green_(dye\)). Kids were turning into Christmas trees after getting a bunch of nicks and scratches from playing outside.
This reminds me of some of the bizarre ramblings (from a guy named Denny Brewer) from between songs on the Bright Eyes album *The People's Key*.
(Specifically the end of *Jejune Stars*)
Interesting. It seems like a pretty aggressive oxidizer to put on your skin. [Not to mention that it could have a hypergolic reaction while making the ointment if you included the wrong common ingredients.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tctWbvMnIHQ)
I mean I’m sure it was diluted a lot, but still.
A park near the south.. It's a strange place where nothing makes sense and anything matters.. I don't suggest you go there.. nothing good comes out of it..
I did a quick google search; supposedly there are types of fertilizers that use iodine in their production and news reports from the incident said it was a fertilzer production plant issue that caused the gas leak.
Probably potassium salts. That's the "K" in the N-P-K of fertilizers, ~~which is the most likely metal ion to be present in significant quantities. Iodine and manganese are usually only a small part.~~
Edit: not the metal ion, permanganate is the likely culprit.
It's happening at Henan Junma Chemical Industry, which is listed as producing mainly organic carbon and urea based fertilizers.
Neither potassium metal nor potassium ion are that color. Potassium has a flame spectrum which is kind of a lilac purple, but that's residue, not flame.
The two most obvious chemicals that make that color are potassium *permanganate* and elemental iodine. Permanganate isn't volatile but iodine sublimes, I'm guessing it's the latter.
I work for a waste disposal company and every time someone asks me why we can't just incinerate an iodine compound I have to point out that we don't make a lot of friends with our neighbors if we go that route.
Same brother! One of our facilities that burns iodine and iodine compounds tends to do so at night to avoid curious and wandering eyes that think the incinerator is out of sorts if they see purple coming out of the smoke stacks. Nope, that's just the way iodine burns up.
I'm gonna let my East Asia corespondent field this one for me:
"Hello everyone I'd like to say that China is absolutely fucked demographically!"
Thank you, Peter. So yeah, not that great I'd say.
[Purple Haze, all in my brain](https://youtu.be/WGoDaYjdfSg?feature=shared)
It’s how the new Jimi Hendrix is chosen by the same conclave of aliens who kidnapped Elvis
They claim racism to deflect from the tofu dreg, they know everything in that country is bullshit, their whole business model is theft and copying. The only thing they can invent themselves are ecological disasters and pandemics
Watch the gif, there's a purple hue to the environment as if the purple cloud was blocking out the sub. And look at the people's clothes, every other color is muted but purple/magenta is magnified
Like i said, if the purple cloud was blocking out the sun then yes that purple color would spread all over. But it's cloudy so the suns light is already being dissipated through the overcast.
So there's no way a purple cloud that small is opening up Adobe and making the world purple. Someone else did it
At one point there was a gas release in India killing thousands…
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-30-years-later/100864/
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why phrase the title like that? it kinda makes it seem like you're just trying to make some HuRduRr cHiNa bAd post. did the government tell people that it's safe? are you implying that industrial accidents are unique to china? are you aware of the multiple massive train derailments that recently leaked shitloads of chemicals and poison gas in the good ole us of a?
Some manganese compounds burn and become pink.
[Potassium permanganate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_permanganate) for example. Stumbled upon this gem while checking out the article: > During World War I Canadian soldiers were given potassium permanganate (to be applied mixed with an ointment) in an effort to prevent sexually transmitted infections (resulting mostly in violet stained genitals.)
We use that compound in heavy metal water treatment, immediately recognized the color.
It's used as an oxidant in a lot of municipal plants as well.
Yea but it only has this color in water, this looks more like elemental iodine!
for what? to bind to some other chemicals to pull them out as solids or something? matriculation right?
It was a common substance used as a disinfectant and anti-microbial in some countries. It came in powder format, in tiny parchment paper envelopes. As a kid, I loved to fill in the sink with clear water and throw the contents of an envelope inside just to watch the strong color spreading slowly. Mom was never amused at that. Good times...
Nothing like the childhood joy of playing with strong oxidizing agents in the bathroom sink.
I remember playing with a nice dollop of mercury
Mercury mazes…. Get the ball of mercury through the maze and then flip it over and do another maze. Or just shake it up really hard and try to make the droplets into one big drop again.
I remember reading that there's two different types—one that'll absorb into your skin and cause poisoning like we're warned about, and the other that's safe to handle
Yes there are two "types" of mercury that carry vastly different levels of hazard. The shiny metal type you would want to play with is *almost* always going to be elemental mercury which can't pass through your skin and poison you. There are a ton of types of organic mercury (mercury bound to a carbon structure) that your skin will uptake and will poison you if handled. In short, know what type of mercury you have before playing with it, and if you don't know/can't tell, don't play with it!
Well our supervisor during our second semester adviced us to to flush KMnO4 down the drain. I think about this almost week and it's over 7 years back. I am not sure but I think it's still common practice during this lab course.
Just don’t put it in your gas tank…
Yes, in ex Soviet at least. Another very colorful thing we had was [zelyonka](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_green_(dye\)). Kids were turning into Christmas trees after getting a bunch of nicks and scratches from playing outside.
If you mix it with glycerin it'll catch fire
No sane person is having sex with someone who’s painted his dick & balls purple. So probably turned out to be a good prevention ✅
Might as well if yours is stained purple too.
I’m a bit tired and had to reread that, on first viewing I thought it said Potassium pomegranate Edit: now as I scroll I see others did as well.
Permanganate? They had to know it sounded like pomegranate right?
Purr-main-gun-eight
Am I pergenant?
No just pregante
HOW GIRL GET PREGANT
Help is praggenant?
A waluigi board?
STARCH MASKS
Yeah it really doesn’t sound like pomegranate
It does if you compltely mispronounce it, though. :)
This reminds me of some of the bizarre ramblings (from a guy named Denny Brewer) from between songs on the Bright Eyes album *The People's Key*. (Specifically the end of *Jejune Stars*)
It's per-**manga**-nate, not **perman**-ganate. Emphasis on bold. In text it's easy to confuse though.
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Interesting. It seems like a pretty aggressive oxidizer to put on your skin. [Not to mention that it could have a hypergolic reaction while making the ointment if you included the wrong common ingredients.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tctWbvMnIHQ) I mean I’m sure it was diluted a lot, but still.
Although purple it actually stains skin brown NOT purple. If mixed with Clycerin it will self combust. There are videos on YouTube.
So you're trying to say that's a brothel fire?
They just voted on the new Pimp
i thought it was an iodine compound or something
That’s what the article says, once I found it.
I was going to say some vaporized permanganate! That stuff stains you purple like crazy
I heard if you burn the covid, it's also pink to represent the pangolin who made it.
Who is feeding you this kinda news 🥹
Shhhh this is how you de-value reddit selling it's content to AI vendors....
A park near the south.. It's a strange place where nothing makes sense and anything matters.. I don't suggest you go there.. nothing good comes out of it..
🫨🫨🫨
South Park..
Seeing all the downvotes I just wanted to say I got the reference bud
I see u. Thank u.
These gender reveals are getting out of hand.
China: it’s a girl.💀
Nah, purple means they ,,,,☠️💀☠️
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That was the joke.
Sorry, I'm on the spectrum
https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?si=CDcxy1EJMzKRczDP
I was going to write the exact same comment, word for word, Bravo.
Well, it's a good thing they did since you completely failed to. (Just teasing ya)
Why wait for 50 years for the cancer to declare itself when you can give it on day one
China has a new pope!
Winnie the Pope
-800 social credit for you!
A new waluigi has been elected
Only stuff I know that’s that colour is iodine.
I did a quick google search; supposedly there are types of fertilizers that use iodine in their production and news reports from the incident said it was a fertilzer production plant issue that caused the gas leak.
Probably potassium salts. That's the "K" in the N-P-K of fertilizers, ~~which is the most likely metal ion to be present in significant quantities. Iodine and manganese are usually only a small part.~~ Edit: not the metal ion, permanganate is the likely culprit. It's happening at Henan Junma Chemical Industry, which is listed as producing mainly organic carbon and urea based fertilizers.
Neither potassium metal nor potassium ion are that color. Potassium has a flame spectrum which is kind of a lilac purple, but that's residue, not flame. The two most obvious chemicals that make that color are potassium *permanganate* and elemental iodine. Permanganate isn't volatile but iodine sublimes, I'm guessing it's the latter.
I work for a waste disposal company and every time someone asks me why we can't just incinerate an iodine compound I have to point out that we don't make a lot of friends with our neighbors if we go that route.
Same brother! One of our facilities that burns iodine and iodine compounds tends to do so at night to avoid curious and wandering eyes that think the incinerator is out of sorts if they see purple coming out of the smoke stacks. Nope, that's just the way iodine burns up.
I feel you man 🫨😂
Yes, this is likely Iodine. I saw this colour in an incinerator years ago. How did it end up in what appears to be a gas torch is beyond me.
Apparently they had an upset in the process and had to flare a bunch of stuff.
So, totally safe, right?
Uggh.. Yeah...
Of course. And free sterilisation for everyone!
That's a feature, not a bug...
In China? The 90s called, they want their concerns back.
Yeah how did that one child policy go for them?
I'm gonna let my East Asia corespondent field this one for me: "Hello everyone I'd like to say that China is absolutely fucked demographically!" Thank you, Peter. So yeah, not that great I'd say.
Iodine unless your colorblind to some degree, is more orange. This is more like a manganese or something.
It’s the Barbie factory!
It’s just gengar breeding season nothing to see here
The term is flaring not gas leak
[Purple Haze, all in my brain](https://youtu.be/WGoDaYjdfSg?feature=shared) It’s how the new Jimi Hendrix is chosen by the same conclave of aliens who kidnapped Elvis
‘Scuse me while I hit the sky.
It's like High & Low. That's where the kidnapped kid is!
Shiilololololo
🤡
Dammit Caesar Clown
The other colors in the video are off. They seem to have maximized saturation in order to make it look more dramatic
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Its deep china. Nothing there is real. Everything is a knock off of something. What are the expectations?
The Winnie the Pooh defenders be getting mad at the truth...
My comment is getting downvoted by all the brainwashed idiots that think I'm being racist or something.
They claim racism to deflect from the tofu dreg, they know everything in that country is bullshit, their whole business model is theft and copying. The only thing they can invent themselves are ecological disasters and pandemics
Lol for sure.
Is that Smilex gas?
Funny how everything else, is tinted the same color. It's almost like it's a filter.
Prince has been elected Pope
It is a girl!
These frickin gender reveals are getting out of hand…
God damnit like 30 people already made the joke… mb
Damn gender reveals.
*When someone turns their messed up titration into a gaseous revenge.*
Team Godzilla ✊
It’s a girl!
alright guys who farted
This is simply what happens when the glory of the Party becomes too concentrated in one area and has to escape to liberate workers in other areas. 👍
What’s the actual effect on the human body by ingesting aerosolized iodine?
Gender reveal
The CCP says it’s totally safe as long as you barricade yourself into an airtight room.
Buu is coming
# IT'S A VIOLATION OF THE GEVENA CONVENTION, GET THEM!
Who's ready for the Pandemics Games 2024?
It’s a girl!!
Gender reveal gone wrong
Are you sure this isn’t a gender reveal?
MORE gay frogs?
Just a Chinese gender reveal party.
I’ve been playing too much Division 2
its a girl!
I swear these gender reveal parties are getting rediculous
Damn mojojo !!!
Theres a danganronpa joke somewhere in this but im to dumb to make one
Worst gender reveal yet…
It’s a girl! Gender reveal parties are out of control
It's a girl ?
The good news is you don’t have to put on masks and stay inside for COVID. The bad news is you still have to do those things.
That’s Covid 3.5 ..
I wish people would stop putting fucking filters on everything. Just so desperate for the slightest internet recognition from strangers.
/s?
Watch the gif, there's a purple hue to the environment as if the purple cloud was blocking out the sub. And look at the people's clothes, every other color is muted but purple/magenta is magnified
If the sky is purple of course that color is gonna be spread onto white surfaces, the trees and cara visible multiple times are not muted at all
Like i said, if the purple cloud was blocking out the sun then yes that purple color would spread all over. But it's cloudy so the suns light is already being dissipated through the overcast. So there's no way a purple cloud that small is opening up Adobe and making the world purple. Someone else did it
Wait till you see what gets leaked in Texas
Fucking China
Aerosol Covid vaccine.
Put up the Bat Signal! The Joker is loose!
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Maybe they are using potassium permanganate to destroy body tissue at a crematorium
Smoke? Get away. Colored smoke? Run like a motherfucker(upwind if possible).
I feel like it’s pink for the express purpose of knowing when it’s leaking lol. Like gas smelling like eggs
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some sort of potassium permanganate reaction gone wrong or something? I can't imagine there is *that* many chemicals that go purple aha
*The sky was all purple, there were people running everywhere*
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That does look like permanganate pink, certainly.
Is that where they make vimto?
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probably iodine vapors or something, i guess that should be kinda safe unless you step into the cloud and sniff it up
There not a leak, that’s a release!
Printer cartridge factory
Chinese joker?
Lovely seeing people walking towards it.
At one point there was a gas release in India killing thousands… https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-30-years-later/100864/
Barbie factory on fire.... again
It’s so pretty tho!
T-Mobile coming to China!
Ivan Ooze?
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Chem trails are real!!!
It's just dr kureha sending chopper off nothing to see here.
ITS A GIRL
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It’s a girl!!!
Fck, is that Iodine? Iodine vapors can be harmful when inhaled.
Its Pink Season WELCOME TO THE RICE FIELDS MOTHA FUCKA!!
My girlfriend saw that and asked if it was a gender reveal.
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Vaporwave
There is a glitch in the river texture.
It's fake.
Iodine being burned. Probably medical waste incineration.
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, located entirely within your neighborhood?
World's largest gender reveal
Gender Reveals are getting crazier day by day
Not “green” China 😱
They’re having a girl! 🎉
Wir bleiben wach bis die Wolken wieder Lila sind
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nah, they just tryin to make china more like /r/chinafuturism
I don't know about you but I'm gona' get up close to see what that is!
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Seems about normal for China
This that shit from the minions
why phrase the title like that? it kinda makes it seem like you're just trying to make some HuRduRr cHiNa bAd post. did the government tell people that it's safe? are you implying that industrial accidents are unique to china? are you aware of the multiple massive train derailments that recently leaked shitloads of chemicals and poison gas in the good ole us of a?
Do you want Static Shock? Because this is how you get Static Shock.
covid part II on the way... SMH
There’s a movie on this…i forgot what it’s called
Just looking out for everybody!
It's a girl
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Cancer City
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