ammonium chlorate

Ammonium chlorate is a very unstable oxidizer and will decompose, sometimes violently, at room temperature.

Ammonium chlorate crystallizes in small needles, readily soluble in water.

Ammonium chlorate is a chemical compound.

It can also be made by reacting ammonium chlorate, an unstable compound, with barium carbonate.

On heating, ammonium chlorate decomposes at about 102 C, with liberation of nitrogen, chlorine and oxygen.

It can also be produced by the reaction of barium carbonate with boiling ammonium chlorate solution:

Ammonium chlorate is an inorganic compound with the formula NHClO.

Ammonium salts must be avoided when using chlorates because ammonium chlorate might form which is a sensitive explosive.

With ammonium salts produces unstable ammonium chlorate.

Ammonium salts and chlorates are to be avoided because of the formation of ammonium chlorate which can lead to spontaneous combustion.

Reacts with potassium chlorate, producing unstable, gradually decomposing ammonium chlorate; such combination has to be avoided.

They reportedly informed investigators of the presence of potassium chlorate, ammonium chlorate acid, detonating equipment and machines to mix the material together at a compound in the city.

It had a secondary use to provide white smoke but its ready double decomposition reaction with potassium chlorate producing the highly unstable ammonium chlorate made its use very suspect.

It is obtained by neutralizing chloric acid with either ammonia or ammonium carbonate, or by precipitating barium, strontium or calcium chlorates with ammonium carbonate or ammonium sulfate, producing the respective carbonate or sulfate precipitate and an ammonium chlorate solution.