Potassium Permanganate + Brake Fluid

This video shows what happens when you mix potassium permanganate with brake fluid. It's pretty cool, and a little more violent than the classic KMnO4 + Glycerin trick.

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• KMnO4
• potassium
• permanganate
• brake
• fluid
• chlorine
• glycerin
• polyethylene
• glycol
• flash
• powder
• spontaneous
• combustion
• fire
• pyro
• gas
• bomb
• explosion
• reaction
• chemical
• demo
• trick

[styropyro]

@haze656

KMnO4 does not equal Cl

[Sloppyjalopey]

Don't try it at home, do it on your neighbors front lawn

[miSTAdeZimo420]

wow al most looks like speical efects

[glasswinng777]

good idea to do it by trees

[Chemkid77]

Where did you get the KMnO4?

[TakronRust]

@chemicalwarfare224 Most are polyethylene glycol or ethylene glycol.

[CPD0123a]

so, I guess keep some of this in the car so you can use it if you need to burn the tires for warmth and to fend off polar bears.

looks a lot better than the classic version, anyway!

[lyrison]

@RadioTrefoil It's one of my favorites!

[jbeer82]

In the experiences I have with permanganate. Don't mix it with Methylated spirits to ignite it. Due to fact it forms aldehydes then Carboxylic acids this would have happened only thing stopping the reaction was I didn't have any acid.

Then ended up doing it at university.

[jbeer82]

@RadioTrefoil okay, I have decided to remove it, I realised that it was wrong, Initially I thought that Mn2O7 reacted with the H2SO4 to form K2SO4. by the textbook it just form the Mn2O7 compound. Sorry about that.