Definition of perchlorate
: a salt or ester of perchloric acid
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Sulfur may have helped protect the organics even when the rocks were exposed at the surface to radiation and bleach-like substances called perchlorates.
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After carefully accounting for background contamination from SAM, Freissinet and her colleagues baked 3-billion-year-old mudstone samples at over 500 degrees C, a temperature at which perchlorates should have fully burned away.
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The middle of the cylinder is filled with a powdered mixture of ammonium perchlorate and ammonium nitrate, the oxidants.
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Bacteria that eat perchlorates might also be used to cleanse the soil.
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Bacteria that eat perchlorates might also be used to cleanse the soil.
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In another building at Promontory, the segments are lowered into an underground shaft where they will be loaded with solid rocket fuel, a mixture of aluminum powder fuel and ammonium perchlorate as the oxidizer.
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One aspect that Guinan and Wamelink have not tackled yet is the presence on Mars of perchlorates, a poisonous chemical that causes thyroid problems in people.
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Bacteria that eat perchlorates might also be used to cleanse the soil.
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