Posted by Jane on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 4:55pm.
That's like asking why cheese is yellow? Permanganate is a good oxidizing agent because it is easily reduced but that hardly seems an answer to me.
http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch19/oxred_3.php
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