By using cobalt nitrate, strontium nitrate and urea as initiative materials, the precursor of cobalt oxide was prepared by Sol-hydrothermal synthesis.

The nitrate and chlorate, very volatile, give off brilliant crimson flames and are used in flares, fireworks, and tracer bullets.

A new combustion synthesis method, the glycine-nitrate process, has been used to prepare complex oxide ceramic powders of strontium-substituted lanthanum nickel.