of or containing chlorine in the pentavalent state
chloric in American English
(ˈklɔrɪk)
adjective
1.
of or containing pentavalent chlorine
2.
designating or of an acid, HClO3, which exists only in solution and whose salts are chlorates
chloric in American English
(ˈklɔrɪk, ˈklour-)
adjective
of or containing chlorine in the pentavalent state
Word origin
[1800–10; chlor(ine) + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1800–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: chlorine, isolate, jumbo, sodium, studio-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)