{"id":5442,"date":"2022-07-02T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T08:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2022-07-02T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T08:18:42","slug":"bleaching-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/02\/bleaching-powder\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleaching powder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bleaching powder is soluble in water and is used as a bleaching agent in textile industries. It is also used as an oxidizing agent and a disinfectant in many industries. It should also be noted that bleaching powder is synthesized by the reacting chlorine gas on dry slaked lime i.e. Ca(OH)2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chemical formula \u2013 Ca(OCl)Cl or CaOCl<sub>2<\/sub><br><strong>Preparation&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013&nbsp;Ca(OH)<sub>2<\/sub>(aq)+Cl<sub>2<\/sub>(g)\u2192CaOCl<sub>2<\/sub>(aq)+H<sub>2<\/sub>O(l)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On interaction with water \u2013 bleaching powder releases chlorine which is responsible for bleaching action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Uses of Bleaching Powder<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>It is used for bleaching dirty clothes in the laundry, as a bleaching agent for cotton and linen in the textile industry.<\/li><li>It is a strong oxidizing agent, hence used as an oxidizer in many industries.<\/li><li>It is used as a disinfectant which is used for disinfecting water to make potable water.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bleaching powder is soluble in water and is used as a bleaching agent in textile industries. It is also used as an oxidizing agent and a disinfectant in many industries. It should also be noted that bleaching powder is synthesized by the reacting chlorine gas on dry slaked lime i.e. Ca(OH)2. Chemical formula \u2013 Ca(OCl)Cl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}