Potassium Permanganate reaction with sugar

Potassium Permanganate reaction with sugar. Potassium permanganate KMNO4 or Condy's Crystals can be used to treat water, but being an oxidizer, it has some fun reaction qualities too!
Mix in some sugar and crush it together to have it catch fire.

[trevmacc]

remids me of the experiments we did in the chemistry lab at school, dont think h and s allow it now

[jebbywaldorf]

You ought to mix in a little Pthalo blue and make some happy little mountains.