date:Sep 04, 2013
ium permanganate was sufficient to soak up all of the ethylene in the hermetically sealed cells!!!! (Fig.2)
Fig.1: Hermetically sealed cells in which the ability of commercially available ethylene absorbing films to absorb ethylene was studied.
Fig. 2. One grain of Potassium permanganate weighing 0.042 Kg was sufficient to soak up all of the ethylene in the hermetically sealed cell within 2 hours whereas ~1000cm2 of film which is claimed to have ethylene absorbing properties barely abso