sodium chlorate

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   a colorless salt (NaClO3) used as a weed killer and an antiseptic

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Questions about sodium chlorate

What does sodium chlorate mean?

sodium chlorate means "a colorless salt (NaClO3) used as a weed killer and an antiseptic".

Is sodium chlorate a common word?

sodium chlorate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.