chlorate
nounEtymology From chloric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
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Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Any salt of chloric acid.
- Chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents.
- The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:
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- The higher levels of chlorate were discovered during routine testing at the company's production facility in Ghent, Belgium, according to an unnamed company spokesperson quoted by the AFP news agency.2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News:
- Derived terms
- ammonium chlorate, chlorate of potash, chloratian, hydrogen chlorate, magnesium chlorate, perchlorate, potassium chlorate, sodium chlorate
- Related terms
- chloric, chloride, hypochlorite