Crossword clues for chlorate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chlorate \Chlo"rate\, n. [Cf. F. chlorate. See Chlorine.] (Chem.) A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.
Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) any salt of chloric acid; chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents
WordNet
n. any salt of chloric acid
Wikipedia
The chlorate anion has the formula . In this case, the chlorine atom is in the +5 oxidation state. "Chlorate" can also refer to chemical compounds containing this anion; chlorates are the salts of chloric acid. "Chlorate", when followed by a Roman numeral in parentheses, e.g. chlorate(VII), refers to a particular oxyanion of chlorine.
As predicted by VSEPR, chlorate anions have trigonal pyramidal structures.
Chlorates are powerful oxidizers and should be kept away from organics or easily oxidized materials. Mixtures of chlorate salts with virtually any combustible material (sugar, sawdust, charcoal, organic solvents, metals, etc.) will readily deflagrate. Chlorates were once widely used in pyrotechnics for this reason, though their use has fallen due to their instability. Most pyrotechnic applications that formerly used chlorates now use the more stable perchlorates instead.
Usage examples of "chlorate".
He therefore turned his attention to the possibility of making sodium chlorate weedkiller in his assembly of pots, wires, and pieces of metal.
The various explosives, such as gunpowder, black blasting powder, potassium chlorate powders, nitro-glycerine powders, etc.
I shook and brushed myself dry, took a couple of food tablets, and put a new potassium chlorate cube in the electrolyser of the mask.
Lack of water had doubtless maddened him, and perhaps he had run out of chlorate cubes as well.
I have none too many chlorate cubes either, and must try to cut down my oxygen consumption as much as I can.
Must save chlorate cubes, so am nearly suffocating for lack of oxygen.
Dissolve in gasoline and pour this liquid onto 90 parts potassium chlorate crystals in a plastic bowl.
They consisted of short rolls of paper with a compound made of sugar and chlorate of potash on one end to which was attached a small globule of acid.
Jevlen possessed oceans that were rich in chloride and chlorate salts.
Properly prepared, it is extremely inflammable, especially when it has been previously saturated with gunpowder, or boiled in a solution of nitrate or chlorate of potash.
The antimony is separated as sulphide, redissolved in hydrochloric acid, and oxidised with a crystal of chlorate of potash.
In the small kitchen area of Room 603 Yousef had boxes and jars full of sodium chlorate, nitrobenzene, sulfur, picric acid, acetate, sodium carbonate, perhydrol, hydrogen peroxide, and methenane, used in the manufacture of the high explosive RDX.
The substitution of potassium chlorate for pyrolusite is recommended when calcium chloride is present in the bittern.
But I chanced to read these words in a book that stood open on the table: ``H2SO4 decomposes chlorates with evolution of Cl4O2.
But I chanced to read these words in a book that stood open on the table: ‘H2SO4 decomposes chlorates with evolution of CL4O2 If heated, violent explosions occur.