Sodium chlorite and chlorate

The percentage of the initial dose excreted within 72 h ranged from 28% for hypochlorous acid to 43% for chlorate, with 75-87% present in the urine and the remainder in the faeces. No CI was detected in expired air (Abdel-Rahman et al., 

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A secondary competing reaction can occur where chlorine dioxide disproportionates in the alkaline solution, producing sodium chlorite and chlorate ... 

Sodium chlorite and chlorate did not induce lipid peroxidation at concentrations up to 400 pmol/l in an in vitro system of multilayer phospholipid liposomes prepared from egg phosphatidylcholine (Panasenko et al., 1997). 

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