BLEACHING POWDER


Meaning of BLEACHING POWDER in English

Chem.

a white powder that decomposes on contact with water and has the characteristic odor of gaseous chlorine: regarded, when dry, as a mixed calcium hypochlorite-chloride, used as a commercial bleach for wood pulp, textiles, oils, and soaps, and in laundering as a decolorizer and disinfectant. Also called chloride of lime, chlorinated lime, calcium oxychloride .

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