kenya chemical is one of the leading Potassium chlorate manufacturers and suppliers in kenya. We are supplied into various industrial markets including Household, Institutional Cleaning, Personal Care, and Industrial sectors including Oil fields, Agriculture, Lubricants, Marine Industry, Metal Working chemical industry, and Coatings markets.
Potassium chlorate is a compound containing potassium, chlorine, and oxygen, with the molecular formula KClO3. In its pure form, it is a white crystalline substance. It is the most common chlorate in industrial use. It is used,
as an oxidizing agent,
to prepare oxygen,
as a disinfectant,
in safety matches,
in explosives and fireworks,
in cultivation, forcing the blossoming stage of the longan tree, causing it to produce fruit in warmer climates.
Potassium chlorate was one key ingredient in early firearms percussion caps (primers). It continues in that application, where not supplanted by potassium perchlorate.
Chlorate-based propellants are more efficient than traditional gunpowder and are less susceptible to damage by water. However, they can be extremely unstable in the presence of sulfur or phosphorus and are much more expensive. Chlorate propellants must be used only in equipment designed for them; failure to follow this precaution is a common source of accidents. Potassium chlorate, often in combination with silver fulminate, is used in trick noise-makers known as “crackers”, “snappers”, “pop-its”, or “bang-snaps”, a popular type of novelty firework.
Potassium chlorate is used in chemical oxygen generators (also called chlorate candles or oxygen candles), employed as oxygen-supply systems of e.g. aircraft, space stations, and submarines, and has been responsible for at least one plane crash. A fire on the space station Mir was also traced to this substance. The decomposition of potassium chlorate was also used to provide the oxygen supply for limelights.
Potassium chlorate can react with sulfuric acid to form a highly reactive solution of chloric acid and potassium sulfate:
2 KClO3 + H2SO4 → 2 HClO3 + K2SO4
The solution so produced is sufficiently reactive that it spontaneously ignites if combustible material (sugar, paper, etc.) is present.
In schools, molten potassium chlorate is used in the dramatic screaming jelly babies, Gummy bear, Haribo, and Trolli candy demonstration where the candy is dropped into the molten salt.
In chemical labs, it is used to oxidize HCl and release small amounts of gaseous chlorine.
Uses Of Potassium Chlorate (KClO3)
- Potassium chlorate along with silver fulminate is used in noise-makers such as snappers and crackers.
- It is used as an oxidizer in smoke grenades.
- It is used to generate oxygen gas in college and school labs.
- It is used in oxygen candles or chlorate candles.
- It is used in limelights to supply oxygen.
- It is used as a pesticide.
- It is used in growling gummy bears.
- It is used as a fertilizer as an effective alternative for ammonium nitrate.
- It is used in the manufacturing of paper.
- It is used in the production of matches.
- It is used in the making of explosives.
Based on the type of product, Potassium Chlorate
Pharmaceutical Grade
Chemical Grade
Based on the end-use, Potassium Chlorate
Explosives
Matches
Disinfectants
Bleaches
Medical
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