Chloric

a. Chem. [f. CHLOR-INE + -IC; cf. F. chlorique.] Of or pertaining to chlorine; containing chlorine in smaller proportion, relatively to oxygen, than chlorous compounds; as in chloric oxide or anhydride, Cl₂ O₅; chloric acid (hydrogen chlorate), HO₃ Cl, a colorless syrupy liquid, having a strong acid reaction, and powerful oxidizing and bleaching qualities: its salts are chlorates. Chloric ether, an old name of ethyl chloride, C₂ H₅ Cl; in Med. sometimes applied to a solution of chloroform in alcohol.

  Perchloric acid HO₄Cl, containing a still smaller proportion of chlorine, is a colorless very volatile liquid, its salts are perchlorates.

1810.  [see CHLORINE 1.]

1818.  Faraday, Res., xvii. (1823), 81. The compound of chlorine and olefiant gas sometimes called chloric ether.

1826.  Henry, Elem. Chem., I. 219. Chloric Acid, a third compound of chlorine and oxygen … existing in the class of salts … now termed chlorates.

1863.  Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 906. Chloric acid when oxidated at the positive pole of a voltaic battery yields perchloric acid.

1868.  Royle & Headland, Mat. Med. (ed. 5), 724. A solution of 1 part of pure chloroform in 7 of Rectified Spirit has been much used under the fictitious name of chloric ether.