Chlorine vs. Bleach

Chlorinenoun

A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.

Chlorinenoun

(countable) A single atom of this element.

Chlorinenoun

One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt (Sodium chloride). It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.

Chlorinenoun

a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)

Chlorine

Chlorine is a chemical element with the symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between them.

Bleachadjective

(archaic) Pale; bleak.

Bleachverb

(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).

Bleachverb

(intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).

Bleachverb

to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.

Bleachverb

To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

Bleachnoun

(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.

Bleachnoun

(countable) A variety of bleach.

Bleachnoun

An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.

Bleachnoun

A disease of the skin.

Bleachverb

To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

Bleachverb

To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Bleachnoun

the whiteness that results from removing the color from something;

Bleachnoun

an agent that makes things white or colorless

Bleachnoun

the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)

Bleachverb

remove color from;

Bleachverb

make whiter or lighter;

Bleach

Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product that is used industrially and domestically to remove color from a fabric or fiber or to clean or to remove stains in a process called bleaching. It often refers, specifically, to a dilute solution of sodium hypochlorite, also called .