bleaching agent

Questions about bleaching agent

What does bleaching agent mean?

bleaching agent means "an agent that makes things white or colorless".

What is another word for bleaching agent?

Close synonyms include bleach, blanching agent, whitener. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bleaching agent a common word?

bleaching agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.