Dissolve about 1.6 gram of of KMnO4 in 500 ml of distilled water.

Keep the solution at a gentle boil for

about 1 hour. Cover and let it stand overnight. Remove MnO2 by filtration through a fine-porosity
filtering crucible. It can also be done through a Gooch crucible fitted with glass mats. Transfer the
solution to a clean glass stoppered bottle. Store in in the dark.

Dry about 1.5 g of primary standard Na2C2O4 at 110°C for at least 1 hour. Cool in a desiccator. Weigh
(to the nearest 0.1 mg) individual 0.2 g to 0.3 g samples into 400ml beakers. Dissolve each in about 250
ml of 1 M H2SO4. Heat each solution to 80°C to 90°C and titrate with KMnO4. Keep stirring the solution
with a thermometer. The pink colour imparted by one addition should be permitted to disappear before
any further titrant is introduced. Reheat if the temperature drops below 60°C. Take the first persistent
(~30s) pink colour as the endpoint. Determine a blank by titrating an equal volume of of 1 M H2SO4.
Correct the titration data for the blank, and calculate the concentration of permanganate solution.