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chlorate

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Any salt of chloric acid; chlorates are powerful oxidizing agents

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There is currently no substitute for the brilliant crimson colour produced by strontium salts such as strontium nitrate, Sr(NO3 2, and strontium chlorate, Sr(ClO3 2, in fireworks, flares, and tracer ammunition.

Typically, about 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of manganese dioxide or 1.5 kilograms of sodium chlorate per ton suffice to oxidize tetravalent uranium.

Cloth bags of the chlorate were soaked in the nitrobenzene and loaded directly from the soaking tank into the boreholes.

Construction of a chemical plant using solar evaporation to extract sodium chloride, sulfide, chlorate, and magnesium oxide started in 1980 near Lake Qārūn.

Berthollet's discovery of a method for the preparation of gunpowder from "superoxygenated potassium muriate" (potassium chlorate, a substitute for saltpetre) was implemented throughout France during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in response to a shortage of saltpetre.

Many plants were built in Europe and the United States for the manufacture of this type of explosive, mostly using potassium chlorate, but so far as can be determined, all of them either blew up or burned up, and no chlorate explosives have been manufactured for many years.

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In England in 1871, Hermann Sprengel patented combinations of oxidizing agents such as chlorates, nitrates, and nitric acid with combustible substances such as nitronaphthalene, benzene, and nitrobenzene.

Interest in the chlorates and perchlorates (salts of chloric or perchloric acid) as a base for explosives dates back to 1788.

The hydrated salts – a mix of chlorates and perchlorates – are a smoking gun for the presence of water at all four sites inspected: the Hale, Palikir and Horowitz craters, and a large canyon called Coprates Chasma.

Such wastes as chlorides, chlorates, salts of phosphonic acid, fluorides, and arsenic had been discharged from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal during the years of its operation by the Army Chemical Corps.

Sprengel explosives were quite popular in Europe, but consumption in the United States was relatively small except for the spectacular Hell Gate blast in New York harbour in 1885, in which a combination of 34,000 kilograms (75,000 pounds) of No. 1 dynamite and 110,000 kilograms (240,000 pounds) of potassium chlorate nitrobenzene were used to remove "Flood Rock," a menace to navigation.

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