More than 300 pounds of a bomb-making chemical was discovered disguised as baby powder, Afghan officials said. The country's intelligence agency said the large quantity of potassium chlorate — a key ...

To the upper right we have very pure potassium chlorate, so much so that it bursts into flames when mixed with sugar and catalyzed with some sulfuric acid. [Mr. Home Scientist] produced the KClO3 ...

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WITH regard to the above crystals, described by Prof. Stokes in NATURE (April 16, p. 565), I should like to suggest, with some diffidence, that the colours may be due, not to a continuous hemitropic ...