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Thermal Decomposition

Squall - 2-11-2007 at 18:01

I know many of you are tired of chlorate and perchlorate posts but please here me out. Recently i have found information that says that you can convert pure chlorate to perchlorate and chloride by just heating the chlorate above its melting temp for a few hours. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried such a procedure and if you have how did you keep a stable temperature. Any insight will be appreciated and once again I apologize for bringing such run down topic back up.

Xenoid - 2-11-2007 at 18:57

Yes! It is a well known procedure described in many chemistry textbooks.

You will find many references to the procedure in this forum. Use Google to search www.sciencemadness.org for (chlorate perchlorate decomposition).

Here are a couple:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=8592
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=3090&a...

Basically the method is innefficient and non-stoichiometric, and quite frankly scares the shit out of me...:o

Regards, Xenoid