Chlorate

Examples

• The latest improvement in chemical matches is the Vesta, which consists of small wax, or stearine tapers, with an igniting composition at the end, consisting of chlorate of potass and phosphorus. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Small glass globules, containing sulphuric acid, were introduced into the composition of chlorate of potass and sugar, which, when broken, set fire to the mixture and lighted the match. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Preparing oxygen from potassium chlorate and manganese dioxide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Mix a small quantity of potassium chlorate with an equal amount of manganese dioxide and place the mixture in a strong test tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It consisted of a thin splinter of dried wood, the top of which was dipped in a mixture of one part of chlorate of potass, two of sulphide of antimony, and one of gum. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He used folded sanded paper--it may have been a tube--and through this he drew a stick coated with chlorate of potash and phosphorus. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It consisted of a roll of paper treated with sugar and chlorate of potash and a small cell containing sulphuric acid. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Congreve matches were composed of an emulsion of phosphorus mixed with chlorate of potass, into which the matches, previously tipped with sulphur, were dipped. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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