what are the uses of bleaching powder??????
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Uses of Bleaching Powder
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USES OF BLEACHING POWDER:
It is used for bleaching cotton and linen in textile industry and for bleaching wood pulp in paper industry.
It is also used for bleaching washed clothes in laundry.
It is used for disinfecting drinking water supply to make it potable. ...
It is used for the manufacture of chloroform (CHCl3).
It is used for making wool un-shrinkable.
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PROPERTIES OF BLEACHING POWDER
It is a pale yellowish powder having a strong smell of chlorine.
It is soluble in cold water. The small insoluble portion left behind on dilution is the lime present in it.
Bleaching powder reacts with dilute acids to produce chlorine.
When bleaching powder is treated with an excess of a dilute, all the chlorine present in it is liberated.
PREPARATION OF BLEACHING POWDER
In this process, Chlorine gas(produced from the chlor-alkali process) is passed over dry slaked lime to produce bleaching powder:
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