calcium hypochlorite

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   any hypochlorite of calcium; used as a bleaching agent

   Broaderhypochloritebleaching agent

Questions about calcium hypochlorite

What does calcium hypochlorite mean?

calcium hypochlorite means "any hypochlorite of calcium; used as a bleaching agent".

Is calcium hypochlorite a common word?

calcium hypochlorite 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.