Cleaning Potassium Permanganate from Concrete - 11/24/13 09:39 PM
The last time I had a potassium permanganate problem, I looked like I'd voted in a mid-East election. My fingertips were purple when some of the dust got on them. For skin, I found out that it is best to just let the deep purple color wear off, kind of like letting a tattoo age into oblivion.
This time, it was my water processing system that had an issue. There is a one gallon overflow bottle on the powdered potassium permanganate tank. After three years of use, it finally filled up and overflowed onto the basement floor. Not much, maybe 1-2 ounces of liquid spread over a few feet. Unfortunately, it makes the concrete floor look like a murder crime scene.
I did a bunch of reading on the Internet about how to clean it up, but I don't trust anything I read. Most of the suggestions look like major accidents waiting to happen -- like using peroxide and muriatic acid. Or from the prepper sites, who suggest using potassium permanganate with anti-freeze to start a really big and instant hot fire to get rid of everything local!
I'm still pretty young when compared to friends like Dave D. I need to live a whole lot longer, just to finish half of the projects I've recently started.
This mess is in my basement.
Any safe suggestions?
This time, it was my water processing system that had an issue. There is a one gallon overflow bottle on the powdered potassium permanganate tank. After three years of use, it finally filled up and overflowed onto the basement floor. Not much, maybe 1-2 ounces of liquid spread over a few feet. Unfortunately, it makes the concrete floor look like a murder crime scene.
I did a bunch of reading on the Internet about how to clean it up, but I don't trust anything I read. Most of the suggestions look like major accidents waiting to happen -- like using peroxide and muriatic acid. Or from the prepper sites, who suggest using potassium permanganate with anti-freeze to start a really big and instant hot fire to get rid of everything local!
I'm still pretty young when compared to friends like Dave D. I need to live a whole lot longer, just to finish half of the projects I've recently started.
This mess is in my basement.
Any safe suggestions?