Barium chlorate Barium chlorate Barium chlorate, Ba(ClO), is a white crystalline solid, the barium salt of chloric acid. It is an irritant and toxic, as are all soluble barium compounds. It is sometimes used in pyrotechnics to produce a green color. It also finds use in the production of chloric acid. Barium chlorate can be produced through a double replacement reaction between solutions of barium chloride and sodium chlorate: On concentrating and chilling the resulting mixture, barium chlorate precipitates. This is perhaps the most common preparation, exploiting the lower solubility of barium chlorate compared to sodium chlorate. The above method does result
Barium perchlorate Barium perchlorate Barium perchlorate is a powerful oxidizing agent, with the formula Ba(ClO). It is used in the pyrotechnic industry. Barium perchlorate decomposes at 505 °C. Gallucci and Gerkin (1988) analyzed the structure of the hydrate isomer Barium Perclorate Trihydrate (Ba(ClO)•3HO) by X-ray crystallography. The barium ions are coordinated by six water oxygen atoms at 2.919Å and six perchlorate oxygens at 3.026Å in a distorted icosahedral arrangement. The perchlorate fails by a narrow margin to have regular tetrahedral geometry, and has an average Cl-O bond length of 1.433Å. The space-group assignment of the structure was resolved, with the centrosymmetric assignment