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POTASSIUM CHLORATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does potassium chlorate mean?
• POTASSIUM CHLORATE (noun)
The noun POTASSIUM CHLORATE has 1 sense:
1. a white salt (KClO3) used in matches, fireworks, and explosives; also used as a disinfectant and bleaching agent
Familiarity information: POTASSIUM CHLORATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A white salt (KClO3) used in matches, fireworks, and explosives; also used as a disinfectant and bleaching agent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("potassium chlorate" is a kind of...):
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))
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