Editing Perchlorate (section)

==Uses==
* The dominant use of perchlorates is as oxidizers in propellants for rockets, fireworks and highway flares. Of particular value is [[ammonium perchlorate composite propellant]] as a component of solid rocket fuel. In a related but smaller application, perchlorates are used extensively within the [[pyrotechnics]] industry and in certain munitions and for the manufacture of matches.<ref name=ull/> Martian perchlorates might also be used to produce fuel on that planet.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hoganson |first=Alexander C. C. |last2=Afriat |first2=Aaron |last3=Wernex |first3=Chase M. |last4=Ferguson |first4=Robert E. |last5=Rathore |first5=Hetal |last6=Patel |first6=Dhruval N. |last7=Tappan |first7=Bryce |last8=Son |first8=Steven F. |date=May 2024 |title=Novel Solid Propellants Enabled Through In Situ Martian Perchlorates |url=https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B39269 |journal=Journal of Propulsion and Power |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=388–396 |doi=10.2514/1.B39269 |issn=0748-4658}}</ref>
* Perchlorate is used to control [[static electricity]] in food packaging. Sprayed onto containers it stops statically charged food from clinging to plastic or paper/cardboard surface.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1210/jc.2017-00046 | volume=102 | issue=7 | title=Identifying Subpopulations Vulnerable to the Thyroid-Blocking Effects of Perchlorate and Thiocyanate | year=2017 | journal=The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism | pages=2637–2645 | author=McMullen Jenica, Ghassabian Akhgar, Kohn Brenda, Trasande Leonardo| pmid=28430972 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Niche uses include [[lithium perchlorate]], which decomposes [[exothermic]]ally to produce oxygen, useful in [[chemical oxygen generator|oxygen "candles"]] on spacecraft, submarines, and in other situations where a reliable backup oxygen supply is needed.<ref name="candle">{{cite journal |doi=10.1021/i360012a016|title=Lithium Perchlorate Oxygen Candle. Pyrochemical Source of Pure Oxygen|journal=Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Product Research and Development|volume=3|issue=4|pages=321–330|year=1964|last1=Markowitz|first1=M. M.|last2=Boryta|first2=D. A.|last3=Stewart|first3=Harvey}}</ref> 
* Potassium perchlorate has, in the past, been used therapeutically to help manage [[Graves' disease]]. It impedes production of the thyroid hormones that contain iodine.<ref name="Sridhar Susarla 1999">{{cite journal |author1=Susarla Sridhar |author2=Collette C. W. |author3=Garrison A. W. |author4=Wolfe N. L. |author5=McCutcheon S. C. | year = 1999 | title = Perchlorate Identification in Fertilizers | journal = Environmental Science and Technology | volume = 33 | issue = 19| pages = 3469–3472 | doi = 10.1021/es990577k |bibcode=1999EnST...33.3469S }}</ref>
* As perchlorate is generally a non-[[Coordination complex|complexing]] [[anion]] and that its sodium salts is particularly [[Solubility|soluble]], it is commonly used as a [[supporting electrolyte|background]], or [[supporting electrolyte|supporting, electrolyte]] in [[Aqueous solution|solution chemistry]], [[electrophoresis]], and [[electrochemistry]]. Although used as a powerful [[Oxidizing agent|oxidizer]] in propulsive powders and explosives, quite surprisingly, the perchlorate anion is a weak [[Oxidizing agent|oxidant]] in [[aqueous solution]] because of [[Chemical kinetics|kinetics]] limitations severely hindering the [[electron transfer]].