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PERCHLORATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perchlorate mean?
• PERCHLORATE (noun)
The noun PERCHLORATE has 1 sense:
1. a salt of perchloric acid
Familiarity information: PERCHLORATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A salt of perchloric acid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("perchlorate" is a kind of...):
salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))
Context examples
They published a detailed map of the distributions of solubility for calcium perchlorates for their more optimistic calculations, which they reckoned were closer to the true case, with and without supercooling.
(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)
Perchlorate identified in Martian soil by the Curiosity mission, has properties of absorbing water vapor from the atmosphere and lowering the freezing temperature of water.
(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)
The spectral signatures is from hydrated minerals called perchlorates.
(NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars, NASA)
Closer to the poles, concentrations could go higher, approaching levels typical of sea water on Earth, 0.2 moles per cubic meter (6.4 mg per liter), for calcium perchlorates.
(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)
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