Talk:Sodium chlorate

Structure diagram- i think this is a joke
Surely the structure should not include a face (oval shape with two eyes) should it?--MilesTerrex (talk) 01:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

You might be confusing it with the electrons' orbitals of oxygen. --2A02:A03F:1655:6500:246F:199F:26E1:3BCA (talk) 11:49, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

The correct structure
I think this is the correct structure.--MilesTerrex So the face should be deleted. (talk) 01:41, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The structure displayed in this article is correct. Also, I fail to see a face of any kind. --Cubbi (talk) 03:17, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You dont see the alien face above the Chlorine atom? It still there--MilesTerrex (talk) 12:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * All I see is a Lone pair. --Cubbi (talk) 14:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh I see. im not a chemist (can you tell?) I thought someone was having a joke (sorry).

--MilesTerrex (talk) 16:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

paragraph on toxicity
Moved the paragraph on toxicity (presumably in humans) to its own section, but I don't understand a word of what it says. Can an actual biochemist look at it and figure out a more accessible way to say the same? 85.178.115.49 (talk) 16:59, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It's classified as harmful, and the first MSDS I found states:Strong oxidizing agent and slightly toxic by ingestion. Ssscienccce (talk) 18:28, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Ban of sale in EU
I think the bit in the article where it says that the sale and use of the stuff in EU countries is banned is actually downright wrong. It can be bought online from several lab suppliers (http://www.stratlab.co.uk/stratlab/value/itemdesc.asp?ic=S2182/R4 is an example) and I don't think you need special permission to use it. --217.42.48.112 (talk) 11:16, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Production: electrolysis?
I understand that the "same reactants" can yield different results: ethanol + sulfuric acid = {ethylene, diethyl ether} depending on temperature. But the entries for sodium hypochlorite sodium chlorate and sodium perchlorate all pretty much say that they're created the same way. Can someone knowledgeable on this topic put in the differentiating conditions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.223.91 (talk) 02:13, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

You will perhaps find the answer in the link below

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/242192.pdf CHLORATES AND PERCHLORATES THEIR MANUFACTURE, PROPERTIES AND USES

Page 441 and 455 shows that someone have entered solubility data for sodiumperchlorate instead of sodiumchlorate on this wikipedia-page. Sodiumchlorate is insoluble in acetone. And ethanol is almost useless for disolving sodiumchlorate. I have tested this myself. And it's not possible to use any solubility in acetone or ethanol to separate NaCl and NaClO3. Because sodiumchlorate is not soluble in acetone or ethanol.

Can someone remove that bad russian solubility reference. And edit the solubility data. I can't edit the references because of some bug that makes my linux and firefox incompatible with parts of the wikipedia ?

What about the methanol solubility? It's said it's soluble in it, so I suppose above 0.1mol/l but could we have the precise solubility ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A03F:1655:6500:246F:199F:26E1:3BCA (talk) 11:46, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Chirality
I believe it is worthy to note things about the chiral crystal of this compound, as well as experiments about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.219.21.69 (talk) 15:34, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Decomposition
I made this edit based on Hess' law. If all the heat went into the product, the NaCl would be about a thousand K hotter than before based on its heat capacity.

I am aware that this is often a thermal decomposition, but it seems self-sustaining. Ideally, I'd like this made more explicit in both articles.--Jasper Deng (talk) 09:48, 22 November 2019 (UTC)