Definition of Perchlorate

1. Noun. A salt of perchloric acid.

Generic synonyms: Salt

Definition of Perchlorate

1. n. A salt of perchloric acid.

Definition of Perchlorate

1. Noun. (chemistry) any salt of perchloric acid; used in pyrotechnics and as powerful oxidizing agents. ¹

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Definition of Perchlorate

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Perchlorate

1. A salt of perchloric acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perchlorate

percesoces
perch
perchance
perched
perched wetland
percher
perchers
perchery
perches
perching
perching bird
perching birds
perchings
perchless
perchlike
perchlorate (current term)
perchlorates
perchloric
perchloric acid
perchloride
perchlorides
perchlorinate
perchlorinated
perchlorinates
perchlorinating
perchlorination
perchlorinations
perchlorobenzene
perchlorobenzoic
perchlorobenzoic acid

Literary usage of Perchlorate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"Lithium perchlorate, LiClO4. Deliquescent. Sol. in H2O and alcohol. ... Mercuric perchlorate cyanide, Hg(CN)2. Very sol. in H2O. Sol. in alcohol. ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1899)
"The potassium perchlorate obtained in this way contains, according to ... Kreider found the Gooch crucible preferable in the filtering of the perchlorate, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"25838, 1898) proposed the use of ammonium perchlorate, then made from the ... The ammonium perchlorate was substituted for the other oxidising salts in the ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1869)
"He states that the ordinary perchlorate is a very impure salt, and he describes a ... In one instance he himself took 5 grammes of perchlorate of potass, ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1853)
"1 At. perchlorate of baryta is rubbed to a fine powder with 1 At. ... With perchlorate of potash the preparation does not succeed ; neither can the ether be ..."

6. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"We have already seen that perchloric acid is obtained by distilling perchlorate of potash with sulphuric acid; in reality, therefore, the manufacture of ..."

7. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"THE PREPARATION OF PERCHLORIC ACID FROM SODIUM perchlorate.1 BY FRANK C. MATHERS. Received October n, 1909. Most of the methods for the preparation of ..."

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