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What is a chlorate?

What is a chlorate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) any salt of chloric acid; chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents
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The potassium chlorate was also found to contain appreciable quantities of bromate.
Thus, perchlorate ion is a stronger oxidant than chlorate ion, followed by chlorite ion and hypochlorite ion.
Finally he dipped the end of one of the sticks into sulphur and then into the chlorate.
All of this is to justify why NaClO 3 is merely sodium chlorate while HClO 3 gets the exalted name of chloric acid.
In low pH solutions, chlorous acid decomposes into chlorine dioxide and chlorate ion.
Electrolysis is used to convert part of the sodium chlorate feed stream of the R8 or the R11 process to chloric acid.

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