chloride of lime

Questions about chloride of lime

What is another word for chloride of lime?

It depends which chloride of lime you mean. In the sense “a white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide and chloride and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect”, the synonyms are bleaching powder, chlorinated lime. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of chloride of lime?

WordNet records no antonym for chloride of lime. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for chloride of lime come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of chloride of lime

• Full entry for chloride of limeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chloride of limeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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