How can you make sodium chlorate I heard that if you boil bleach it turns into sodium chloride and then sodium chlorate. Is this true If not is there any other way to make sodium chlorate?

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Sodium chloride is just salt so boiling bleach is kind of a hassle. However, you can make sodium chlorate through electrolysis of a hot sodium chloride solution. I have not tried this but it have heard it works.

It is unnecessary to boil down bleach. To make Sodium Chlorate, you can simply use Sodium Chloride, which is table salt and can be bought at the grocery store. You must first mix the salt in water, about 330 grams per litre. Then put the mixture in a pot, and insert rods connected to opposite ends of a battery or car battery charger. This is called Electrolysis. You can also heat the mixture, but do not boil it. This may speed up the reaction. Once all of the salt is dissovled in the water you filter out the water with a coffee filter and dry it. Once dried, you now have Sodium Chlorate, which can be used to make explosives by adding aluminum powder to it or magnesium powder or any sort of fuel including sugar.