chlorate

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English chloric acid English -ate English chlorate From chloric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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.”