chlorate

See also: Chlorate

English

Etymology

From chloric acid +‎ -ate (“salt or ester”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

chlorate (plural chlorates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt of chloric acid.

   Chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents.

   • 1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:

     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.

   • 2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• ammonium chlorate
• chlorate of potash
• chloratian
• hydrogen chlorate
• magnesium chlorate
• perchlorate
• potassium chlorate
• sodium chlorate

Related terms

• chloric

Translations

any salt of chloric acid

• Bashkir: хлорат (xlorat)
• Catalan: clorat m
• Czech: chlorečnan m, chlorát m
• Finnish: kloraatti (fi)
• French: chlorate (fr) m
• German: Chlorat n
• Hindi: नीरजीती (nīrjītī)
• Italian: clorato (it) m
• Kazakh: хлорат (xlorat)
• Kyrgyz: хлорат (hlorat)
• Polish: chloran m
• Portuguese: clorato m
• Spanish: clorato m
• Telugu: క్లోరేటు (klōrēṭu)
• Turkish: klorat

See also

• chloride
• hypochlorite

Anagrams

• chelator, trachelo-, trochlea

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɔ.ʁat/

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Noun

chlorate m (plural chlorates)

1. chlorate

Further reading

• “chlorate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.