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Bleaching Powder

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Noun

1. bleaching powder, chloride of lime, chlorinated lime

a white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide and chloride and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bleaching Powder

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noun
a white powder with the odour of chlorine, consisting of chlorinated calcium hydroxide with an approximate formula CaCl(OCl).4H2O. It is used in solution as a bleaching agent and disinfectant
. Also called: chloride of lime, chlorinated lime

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Bleaching Powder

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any powder used in bleaching; esp., chloride of lime

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bleaching Powder

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n.
A powder containing calcium chloride and calcium hypochlorite, used in solution as a bleach. Also called chloride of lime, chlorinated lime.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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