Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In chem., applied to an acid (HCIO) having marked bleaching properties, obtained in solution by distilling bleaching-powder with dilute nitric acid. It is the active principle of bleaching-powder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds.
- adjective (Chem.) an acid derived from chlorine, not known in a pure state, but forming various salts, called hypochlorites.
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- adjective chemistry Pertaining to or derived from
chlorine having avalence lower than inchlorous compounds .
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Examples
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I thus set up an independent program to investigate chemical and spectroscopic properties of compounds of atmospheric importance, focusing on those that are unstable and difficult to handle in the laboratory, such as hypochlorous acid, chlorine nitrite, chlorine nitrate, peroxynitric acid, etc.
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Talking about "ion-hungry" water that kills through osmosis makes it sound like it's some sort of ultrapure stuff, but their water has plenty of ions in it, since the electrolysis that produces it makes hypochlorous acid, hydrochloric acid, and so on.
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Talking about "ion-hungry" water that kills through osmosis makes it sound like it's some sort of ultrapure stuff, but their water has plenty of ions in it, since the electrolysis that produces it makes hypochlorous acid, hydrochloric acid, and so on.
The Speculist: There's More Than One Way To Skin A Bacterium 2005
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When added to water, chlorine reacts to form hypochlorous acid and hypochlorite.
8. Water treatment 1992
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At pH levels between 3 and 6, hypochlorous acid dissociates poorly.
3. Technologies 1985
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Simultaneously with the dissociation, hypochlorous acid partly breaks up, forming monatomic oxygen, which contributes to the oxidizing effect:
3. Technologies 1985
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The actual agent is hypochlorous acid (HOCl) which forms when chlorine is added to water:
3. Technologies 1985
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Bleaching powder bleaches by having its hypochlorous acid set free, which in turn gives up oxygen, being converted into hydrochloric acid.
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It is true that such cases of isomerism are as yet unknown, but we do know that certain metals, in our present state of knowledge, yield oxychlorides only, while others only form hypochlorous salts.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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In the case just now assumed we arrive at the oxychloride; when, however, the metal and chlorine change places in the water molecule, the isomeric hypochlorous salts are the result.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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