Both processes are analogous to those used in the production of chlorates. Mixtures of SbS and chlorates may explode. Sodium, potassium, and lithium chlorates and perchlorates are used. It reacts with incandescence with cadmium, magnesium and zinc chlorates. Iodates resemble chlorates with iodine instead of chlorine. Other groups include chlorates and peroxides which are not nitro based explosives. Like other chlorates, it is a strong oxidizer. Perchlorates, chlorates and nitrates are the most commonly used oxidizers for flash powders. Like all chlorates, it is water-soluble and an oxidizing agent. It is an oxidant, as are all chlorates. Most pyrotechnic applications that formerly used chlorates now use the more stable perchlorates instead. Sprengel suggested nitric acid, nitrates and chlorates as oxidisers, and nitroaromatics (e.g. nitrobenzene) as fuels. Chlorates are relatively toxic, though they form generally harmless chlorides on reduction. Chlorates are powerful oxidizers and should be kept away from organics or easily oxidized materials.