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chloride of lime

chloride of lime noun: bleaching powder.

Noun

chloride of lime (uncountable)

  1. bleaching powder
    • A rat scampered across the tin cans and burst sandbags, and trench atmosphere reasserted itself in a smell of chloride of lime.1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 312 (Faber Paper 1972 edition)

Questions about chloride of lime

What does chloride of lime mean?
Chloride of lime means bleaching powder.
What part of speech is chloride of lime?
Chloride of lime is a noun.

Words near chloride of lime in the dictionary

  1. chloridate
  2. chloridated
  3. chloridates
  4. chloridating
  5. chloride
  6. chloride of lime
  7. chloride shift
  8. chloride shifts
  9. chlorides
  10. chloridic
  11. chloridise

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