sodium chlorate
noun
: a colorless crystalline salt NaClO3 used especially as an oxidizing agent and weed killer
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The researchers put sodium chlorate, a white powdery chemical, in white plastic bottles and blasted a laser at it.
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Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2012
Raman scattering from the sodium chlorate, however, goes out uniformly in all directions.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2012
Now the bottle itself will scatter some light, but a small proportion of the light will also penetrate the bottle and be scattered by the sodium chlorate, and a tiny proportion of that light will have an energy change per Raman scattering.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2012
Piles of uncovered uranium ore are stored near the mill, waiting to be fed into the crusher and processed in a series of tanks containing sulfuric acid, sodium chlorate, ammonia and other chemicals used to separate out the uranium.
—Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2012
Raman scattering from the sodium chlorate, however, goes out uniformly in all directions.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2012
Now the bottle itself will scatter some light, but a small proportion of the light will also penetrate the bottle and be scattered by the sodium chlorate, and a tiny proportion of that light will have an energy change per Raman scattering.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2012
Piles of uncovered uranium ore are stored near the mill, waiting to be fed into the crusher and processed in a series of tanks containing sulfuric acid, sodium chlorate, ammonia and other chemicals used to separate out the uranium.
—Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
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