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Chlorine :: Chlorine (n.) 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 :: Bleach (v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Sulphurize :: Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur..

White :: White (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

Bleaching :: Bleaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleac.

Buck :: Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed..

Barilla :: Barilla (n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes..

Calico :: Calico (n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc..

Decolorant :: Decolorant (n.) A substance which removes color, or bleaches..

Fume :: Fume (v. t.) To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room..

Bleaching :: Bleaching (n.) The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents..

Holland :: Holland (n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands..

Spineless :: Spinel (n.) Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.

Oxygen :: Oxygen (n.) Chlorine used in bleaching.

Chlorometer :: Chlorometer (n.) An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

Bleacheries :: Bleacheries (pl. ) of Bleacher.

Decolor :: Decolor (v. t.) To deprive of color; to bleach.

Whitester :: Whitester (n.) A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.

Bucking :: Bucking (n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used..

Whitener :: Whitener (n.) One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher..

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