bleaching powder

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

   Synonymschlorinated limechloride of lime

   Broaderbleaching agent

Questions about bleaching powder

What does bleaching powder mean?

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

What is another word for bleaching powder?

Close synonyms include chlorinated lime, chloride of lime. 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 powder a common word?

bleaching powder 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.