Definition of Chlorate

1. Noun. Any salt of chloric acid.

Generic synonyms: Salt

Definition of Chlorate

1. n. A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.

Definition of Chlorate

1. Noun. (chemistry) any salt of chloric acid; chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents ¹

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Definition of Chlorate

1. a chemical salt [n -S]

Medical Definition of Chlorate

1. A salt of chloric acid. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chlorate

chloramphenicol acetyltransferase
chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene
chloramphenicol amidase
chloramphenicol o-acetyltransferase
chloramphenicol palmitate
chloramphenicol resistance
chloramphenicol sodium succinate
chlorane
chloranil
chloranilic acid
chlorapatite
chlorapatites
chlorargyrite
chlorartinite
chlorate (current term)
chlorates
chloratian
chloraurate
chloraurates
chlorazanil
chlorazene
chlorazol black E
chlorbartonite
chlorbenside
chlorbenzoxamine
chlorbenzoxyethamine
chlorbetamide
chlorbutol
chlorcyclizine

Literary usage of Chlorate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"After this period, as age increases the sensibility diminishes until maturity is reached, when it becomes constant and normal. chlorate OF POTASSIUM. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The mother liquor is treated with HC1 to destroy the chlorate, with due precautions against explosions. The still liquor is now neutralised with MgO ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"Since the solubility of sodium chlorate in silver chlorate decreases as the temperature rises, the heat of solid solution should be positive while the ..."

4. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth (1921)
"Potassium chlorate through the action of potassium weakens the heart. In chlorate poisoning the blood has a characteristic chocolate-brown color (see above) ..."

5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Berthelot (Mein, des Poudres et Salpêtre, 1900-1910) has shown that potassium chlorate alone can be made to detonate, by allowing a small drop of the fused ..."

6. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messenger. Comey (1896)
"All chlorates except mercurous chlorate are sol. in H20 ; most of them are ... Known only in solution, which decomp. on evaporation. Caesium chlorate ..."

7. A Compendium of the Course of Chemical Instruction in the Medical Department by Robert Hare (1828)
"The solution being again filtered, crystals of the chlorate in question •ire procured. From the chlorate of barytes, pure chloric acid may be obtained by ..."

8. Manual of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1904)
"The lye of calcium chloride and chlorate obtained has a rose-red colour, ... 1-35, when a second, though smaller, crop of potassium chlorate is obtained. ..."

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