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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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This enzyme coincidentally converts the chlorate to chlorite, which kills the harmful bacteria.
The potassium chlorate was also found to contain appreciable quantities of bromate.
The tissue is then placed for 8 to 10 days in a solution containing potassium chlorate, osmium tetroxide, formaldehyde, and glacial acetic acid.
Finally he dipped the end of one of the sticks into sulphur and then into the chlorate.
This composition is simply a mixture of phosphorus, glue, and chlorate of potash.
All of this is to justify why NaClO 3 is merely sodium chlorate while HClO 3 gets the exalted name of chloric acid.

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