ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chlorate

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Chlorate is a noun meaning (chemistry) Any salt of chloric acid.

Meaning

(chemistry) Any salt of chloric acid.

Example Sentences

Chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents.
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.
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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chloride, potassic, potassium, perchlorate, chlorochromate, chloroaurate.

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