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Potassium chlorate   /pətˈæsiəm klˈɔreɪt/   Listen
Potassium chlorate

noun
1.
A white salt (KClO3) used in matches, fireworks, and explosives; also used as a disinfectant and bleaching agent.






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"Potassium chlorate" Quotes from Famous Books



... or three jars of oxygen, using potassium chlorate and manganese dioxide. (See any Chemistry text-book.) Let the pupils examine the chemicals, learn their names, and know where to obtain them. ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education

... sulphide precipitates copper, lead, and mercury, dark; arsenic, antimony, and tin, yellowish. If no precipitate, add ammonia and ammonium sulphide, iron, black, zinc, white, chromium, green, manganese, pink. The residue of the material after digestion with hydrochloric acid and potassium chlorate may have to be examined for silver, lead, ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... these metals in cases of poisoning, the organic matter with which they are associated must first be destroyed in the usual way by means of hydrochloric acid and potassium chlorate, and the precipitates obtained in the ordinary course of analysis, then subjected, at suitable stages, to electrolysis. As the solutions thus obtained will be still contaminated by some organic matter, it is necessary to pass the current for a longer time ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various



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