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Blanchimeter :: Blanchimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.

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

Dungaree :: Dungaree (n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.

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

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..

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

Bleached :: Bleached (a.) Whitened; make white.

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair..

Kier :: Kier (n.) A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.

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

Grass :: Grass (v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc..

Carrigeen :: Carrigeen (n.) A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce..

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

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..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching..

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..

Antichlor :: Antichlor (n.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

Sulphur-bottom :: Sulphurator (n.) An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur..

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together..

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..

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