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chloride of lime

chloride of lime

noun

  1. another name for bleaching powder


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chloride of lime1

First recorded in 1820–30

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Example Sentences

If necessary, chloride-of-lime solution should be injected into the tissues around the wound.

Was it permissible to describe the smell of chloride-of-lime in the trenches, or would that discourage recruiting?

But I discovered, before he came, that she had gotten too close a whiff of the chloride-of-lime bag, and it nauseated her.

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