Meanings
nounchloride of lime (uncountable)
- uncountablebleaching 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)
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide and chloride and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect
Broader
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