chlorate
chlorate noun: any salt of chloric acid.
Noun
chlorate (plural chlorates)
- Any salt of chloric acid.
- 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
chlorate meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu
chlorate in Hindi
- any salt of chloric acid
- नीरजीती nīrjītī
chlorate in Tamil
- குளோரேற்று
chlorate in Telugu
- any salt of chloric acid
- క్లోరేటు klōrēṭu
Forms of chlorate
| plural | chlorates |
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Origin of chlorate
From chloric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Words formed from chlorate
- ammonium chlorate
- chlorate of potash
- chloratian
- hydrogen chlorate
- magnesium chlorate
- perchlorate
- potassium chlorate
- sodium chlorate
Questions about chlorate
- What does chlorate mean?
- Chlorate means any salt of chloric acid.
- What is chlorate in Hindi?
- Chlorate in Hindi is नीरजीती (nīrjītī). See Chlorate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chlorate?
- Chlorate is a noun.
- What is the plural of chlorate?
- The plural of chlorate is chlorates.
Words near chlorate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chlorate (page history and authors); chlorate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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