Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substance, such as sodium thiosulfate, used to neutralize the excess chlorine or hypochlorite left after bleaching textiles, fiber, or paper pulp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bleaching, any substance or means employed to remove or neutralize the injurious effects of the free chlorine left in cotton, linen, or paper which has been bleached by means of alkaline hypochlorites, as chlorid of lime, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any substance used to remove excess
chlorine orhypochlorite fromtextiles etc afterbleaching ; typically sodium thiosulfite
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[anti– + chlor(ine).]
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Chloride of lime is frequently used in laundry work; the clothes are whiter than when cleaned with soap and simple washing powders, but they soon wear out unless the precaution has been taken to add an "antichlor" or neutralizer to the bleaching solution.
General Science Bertha M. Clark
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