A crystal of potassium permanganate was carefully introduced at the bottom of water column held in a gas jar. After sometime, the whole volume of...

      

A crystal of potassium permanganate was carefully introduced at the bottom of water column held in a gas jar. After sometime, the whole volume of water was coloured. Explain this observation

  

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Chrispoh
The continuously moving water molecules hit the crystal from all directions causing it to split into the tiny particles of which it consist. The same movement caused the particles to diffuse to all parts of the liquid, this rendering the whole volume colored.
chrispohmomanyi answered the question on February 9, 2018 at 10:47


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