Associations to the word «Perchloric»

Wiktionary

PERCHLORIC, adjective. (chemistry) Describing compounds containing the most highly oxidized state of chlorine
PERCHLORIC ACID, noun. A clear colourless liquid; a strong acid and a violent, sometimes explosive, oxidizing agent
PERCHLORIC ACID, noun. (chemistry) HClO4, the oxyacid of chlorine in which chlorine has the highest oxidation number

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope