chlorate

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

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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.

• chloride
• hypochlorite

• chelator, trachelo-, trochlea

• IPA^(key): /klɔ.ʁat/

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chlorate m (plural chlorates)

1. chlorate

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