Bleaching+powder
11bleaching powder — noun Date: circa 1830 a white powder consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide, calcium chloride, and calcium hypochlorite and used as a bleach, disinfectant, or deodorant …
12bleaching powder — 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,… …
13bleaching powder — noun a powder containing calcium hypochlorite, used to bleach materials …
14bleaching powder — Chloride of lime, Tennant s powder …
15bleaching powder — bleach′ing pow der n. chem. a white powdered mixture of calcium hypochlorite used as a commercial bleach Also called chloride of lime …
16Bleaching — Bleach ing, n. The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. [1913 Webster] {Bleaching powder}, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other… …
17bleaching agent — noun an agent that makes things white or colorless • Syn: ↑bleach, ↑blanching agent, ↑whitener • Derivationally related forms: ↑whiten (for: ↑whitener), ↑bleach ( …
18powder — n. 1) to put on powder 2) baby; baking; bleaching; curry; dusting; face; garlic; scouring; talcum; tooth powder 3) gunpowder; smokeless powder 4) (misc.) (slang) to take a powder ( to run off unexpectedly ); (colloq.) to keep one s powder dry (… …
19powder — 1. A dry mass of minute separate particles of any substance. 2. In pharmaceutics, a homogenous dispersion of finely divided, relatively dry, particulate matter consisting of one or more substances; the degree of fineness of a pow′der is related… …
20Smokeless powder — is the name given to a number of propellants used in firearms and artillery which produce negligible smoke when fired, unlike the older gunpowder (black powder) which they replaced. The basis of the term smokeless is that the combustion products… …
