When fire was used for both heat and illumination, the delay between ... reaction. That’s potassium chlorate, or as it was known then, chlorate of potash, being mixed with sulfuric acid.

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 ...

The NurdRage host explains that most safety matches use potassium chlorate as an oxidizer, and when it comes into contact with sulfuric acid ... (The chemical reactions are written out by NurdRage ...

the sulfuric acid will soak into the paper, reaching the large compartment with the potassium chlorate and sugar mixture, causing a strongly exothermic reaction that ignites the paper. Yet as ...

In 1811 or 1814 (accounts vary), pioneering English chemist Sir Humphry Davy discovered ClO 2 when he added sulfuric acid to potassium chlorate. This procedure is often used today, along with ...