'Chloride of lime' definitions:
Definition of 'chloride of lime'
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noun
A white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide and chloride and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect [syn: bleaching powder, chlorinated lime, chloride of lime]
Definition of 'Chloride of lime'
From: GCIDE
- Chloride \Chlo"ride\, n. (Chem.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt). [1913 Webster]
- Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac.
- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOCl2, used in bleaching and disinfecting; -- called more properly calcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous.
- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate. [1913 Webster]