Sodium Chlorate NaClOJ

Describe the types of bonding in sodium chlorate, NaClOj. 

Stratcor process (Durango, CO). In Durango, US Vanadium Corp. recovers vanadium as a coproduct with uranium by leaching the ore concentrate for 24 h with hot sulfuric acid and an oxidant such as sodium chlorate (NaClOj). After removal of solids, the leachate is fed into a solvent-extraction circuit, where the uranium is extracted in an organic solvent consisting of 2.5%-amine-2.5%-isodecanol-95%-kerosene. Vanadium remains in the raffinate, which is fed into a second solvent-extraction circuit. There vanadium in turn is extracted in the organic phase, stripped with a 10 wt.% soda-ash solution, and precipitated with ammonium sulfate. The ammonium metavanadate precipitate is filtered, dried, and calcined to yield flakes of black (fused) vanadium pentoxide. 

Some dehydration reactions of sulfuric acid can be very vigorous. For example, the reaction with perchloric acid produces unstable CI2O7, and a violent explosion can result. Concentrated sulfuric acid produces dangerous or toxic products with a number of other substances such as toxic carbon monoxide (CO) from reaction with oxalic acid, H2C2O4 toxic bromine and sulfur dioxide (Bf2 and SO2) from reaction with sodium bromide, NaBr and toxic, unstable chlorine dioxide (CIO2) from reaction with sodium chlorate, NaClOj. 

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