Question

what is bleaching powder explain its uses​

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Bleaching powder is also known as chloride of lime. It is a solid and yellowish white in colour. Bleaching powder can easily be identified by the strong smell of chlorine.

When calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) reacts with chlorine, it gives calcium oxychloride (bleaching powder) and water is formed.

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• Bleaching powder is used as disinfectant to clean water, moss remover, weed killers, etc.

• Bleaching powder is used for bleaching of cotton in textile industry, bleaching of wood pulp in paper industry.

• Bleaching powder is used as oxidizing agent in many materials, such as textile industry, paper industry, etc.