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SRA005 - Cannon fire: sprinkling potassium manganate (VII) onto a burning mixture of hydrogen peroxide and ethanol
A set of risk assessed instructions for safely demonstrating this reaction. The reaction between the permanganate and peroxide releases oxygen which burns with a harmless, but quite loud, bang.