- Bleaching
- of Whiten
- The act or process of making or becoming white.
- That which is used to render white; whiting.
- Bleaching agent
- Gaseous element
- Swimming pool additive
- One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a
greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an
intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It
is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt.
It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl.
Atomic weight, 35.4.
- Bleach
- Bleaching agent
- One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher;
a whitewasher.