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Definition of Chloride of lime

1. Noun. A white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide and chloride and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chloride Of Lime

Literary usage of Chloride of lime

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1831)
"Chloride of Lime in Pectoral Disease, with great Factor of breath and Expectoration.—Drs. GRAVES and STOKES have administered the chloride of lime in a case ..."

2. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"For disinfecting purposes dissolve eight ounces of the chloride of lime in a gallon of water (Sternberg). This solution should be placed in the vessel ..."

3. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"chloride of lime is a dry white powder, which smells faintly of chlorine, ... chloride of lime is also decomposed by a strong heat : at first, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"far the greater part of the chlorine produced on a manufacturing scale is converted into chloride of lime or bleaching powder. chloride of lime or bleaching ..."

5. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"I prepared a quantity of chloride of magnesia, by exposing a hydrate of that earth in the chlorine chamber of a large manufactory of chloride of lime at ..."

6. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"EVALUATION OF BLEACHING POWDER, chloride of lime, FOR AVAILABLE CHLORINE When chloride of lime is treated with water, it is resolved into calcium ..."

7. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1849)
"Known only in a state of mixture, with chloride of calcium in equivalent proportions, forming the compound called Chloride of Lime. a. Chloride of Lime in ..."

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