Chlorates, inorganic

Plants can also be pests that need to be controlled, particulady noxious weeds infesting food crops. Prior to 1900, inorganic compounds such as sulfuric acid, copper nitrate, sodium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, and potassium salts were used to selectively control mustards and other broadleaved weeds in cereal grains. By the early 1900s, Kainite and calcium cyanamid were also used in monocotyledenous crops, as well as iron sulfate, copper sulfate, and sodium arsenate. Prom 1915 to 1925, acid arsenical sprays, carbon bisulfate, sodium chlorate, and others were introduced for weed control use. Total or nonselective herbicides kill all vegetation, whereas selective compounds control weeds without adversely affecting the growth of the crop (see Herbicides). 

One of the most widespread methods of water disinfection is it s chlorination. As chloration products ai e toxic, their content is to be controlled. Among them free chlorine and inorganic chloramines ai e predominant in water. Maximum contaminant limit for free chlorine is 0.3 - 0.5 mg/L, for chloramines - 0.8 - 1.2 mg/L. 

An important class of expl materials contains metallic fuels and inorganic oxidants. Examples are Tritonal (TNT/A1, 80/20), Amatols (TNT/AN, 28/80 80/20), and Minol-2 (TNT/AN/A1, 40/40/20). Oxidants other than nitrates, such as chlorates and perchlorates, may be employed. Water solns containing these cations are highly corrosive to metals. Alkaline metal salts, for example, in the presence of moisture, will pit A1 quickly (Ref 6)... 

C102 and -OC103 in inorganic and organic chlorates and perchlorates re-pectively... 

Plastomenites. Propints, patented in Ger by Guttler in 1889—90, consisting of NC, Nitro-lignine, Nitrosugar, Nitrostarch, etc, gelatinized by the addition of nitrated aromatic compds such as benz, toluene, phenol, naphthalene, etc. Inorganic nitrates, chlorates, chromates, picrates, etc, could be added to the mixt... 

Hypergolic reaction systems have been proposed (Refs 46 73) for 5.56mm ammo, specifically triethylaluminum (TEA) together with inorganic oxidizers. This system is self-igniting in air, but is compatible with some nitrates, chlorates and perchlorates... 

Cl (hypohalite), -CIO3 (chlorate), -CIO4 (perchlorate), -OCIO2 and -OCIO4 connected to inorganic or organic radicals ... 

Dissolved lignin and carbohydrates Color COD AOX Inorganic chlorine compounds (e.g., chlorate (C103 ))c Water... 

In choice A, KC103 is potassium chlorate, not perchlorate. In choice B, CuO is copper (II) oxide, to distinguish it from copper (I) oxide, Cu20. In choice C, the formula for aluminum sulfate is A12(S04)3. In D, the formula for magnesium phosphate is Mg3(P04)2. If you missed these, review inorganic nomenclature and refer to pages 94 and 95 of this book to become familiar with common ions and their charges. 

Aniline black (Cl Oxidation Base 1) is a complex polymeric phenazine that can be produced on cotton fabric by impregnation with aniline hydrochloride and suitable inorganic oxidants, such as sodium chlorate, ammonium vanadate and copper hexacyanoferrate(II). Aniline black is also made directly for use as a pigment (Cl Pigment Black 1). 

Nitrites, inorganic Nitrogen oxides (NOx) Oxygen Peracetic acid Perchloric acid solutions Potassium bromate Potassium chlorate Potassium dichloro-s-triazinetrione (potassium dichloroisocyanurate) Potassium dichromate Potassium percarbonate Potassium perchlorate Potassium permanganate Potassium peroxide Potassium persulfate Potassium superoxide n-Propyl nitrate... 

Other inorganic crystals studied by Mark and his collaborators, sometimes leading to complete structure determinations, include strontium chloride, zinc hydroxide, tin tetraiodide, potassium chlorate, potassium permanganage, and ammonium ferrocyanide. Minerals investigated by them include CaSO (anhydrite), BaSO (barite), PbSO, Fe2TiO[j (pseudobrookite), and three forms of Al2Si05 (cyanite, andalusite, and sillimanite). 

Reported 5 Cl work related to inorganic environmental problems is more limited. A method for the analysis of chlorates and perchlorates has been developed and used to demonstrate fractionation associated with the microbial degradation of perchlorate with a fractionation factor of 0.985 (Ader et al. 2001 Coleman et al. 2003). Additionally, b Cl has been used to constrain the origin of a Cl-rich plume (Loomis et al. 1998). 

Oxidizers may not themselves be combustible, but they may provide reaction pathways to accelerate the oxidation of other combustible materials. Combustible solids and liquids should be segregated from oxidizers. Certain oxidizers undergo dangerous reactions with specific noncombustible materials. Some oxidizers, such as calcium hypochlorite, decompose upon heating or contamination and self-react with violent heat output. Oxidizers include nitrates, nitric acid, nitrites, inorganic peroxides, chlorates, chlorites, dichromates, hypochlorites, perchlorates, permanganates, persulfates and the halogens. 

Yet another important feature of inorganic oxidisers such as potassium nitrate rests with the nature of the atoms forming the chemical bonds. Many pyrotechnic compositions rely on chlorates, perchlorates or nitrates as high-energy oxidisers whilst high explosives commonly are based on nitrated organic substances. The reason for this lies with the electronegativity of the atoms concerned. 

There are four types of explosives that do not contain nitro groups inorganic oxidizers (in combination with any fuel), peroxide explosives, primary explosives, and newly developed high-nitrogen explosives. Chapter 3 discusses both the inorganic oxidizers—principally nitrate or chlorate-based and peroxide explosives—TATP and HMTD. We have previously reported on the thermal stabilities... 

Other commercially important inorganic chemicals that can be made electrolytically include caustic soda and chlorine, chlorate and perchlorate salts (Chapter 12), potassium dichromate (K2Cr207), manganese dioxide, and potassium permanganate.16... 

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