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chlorate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Any salt of chloric acid.
   • 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. 2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News:
   • Chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents.
   • 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. 1867, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Chemical Technology, page 696:

Forms

Deriveds

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

Relateds

chloric · chloride · hypochlorite

Translations (18)

cs chlorečnan (any salt of chloric acid) · kk хлорат (any salt of chloric acid) · fr chlorate (any salt of chloric acid) · pl chloran (any salt of chloric acid) · ky хлорат (any salt of chloric acid) · sv klorat (any salt of chloric acid) · it clorato (any salt of chloric acid) · te క్లోరేటు (any salt of chloric acid) · hi नीरजीती (any salt of chloric acid) · pt clorato (any salt of chloric acid) · de Chlorat (any salt of chloric acid) · tr klorat (any salt of chloric acid) · fi kloraatti (any salt of chloric acid) · ca clorat (any salt of chloric acid) · es clorato (any salt of chloric acid) · cs chlorát (any salt of chloric acid) · cmn 氯酸鹽 /氯酸盐 (any salt of chloric acid) · ba хлорат (any salt of chloric acid)