Description
Calcium hypochlorite is an inorganic compound with formula Ca(ClO)2. As a mixture with lime and calcium chloride, it is marketed as chlorine powder or bleach powder for water treatment and as a bleaching agent. This compound is relatively stable and has greater available chlorine than sodium hypochlorite (liquid bleach). It is a white solid, although commercial samples appear yellow. It strongly smells of chlorine, owing to its slow decomposition in moist air. It is not highly soluble in water and is more preferably used in soft to medium-hard water.
Application:
1. Be used in swimming pool and drinking water treatment, clean the industrial circulating water.
2. Be used to sterilize tableware, and as preventive disinfection of house, hotel, hospital and public place; used on the environmental sterilization of raising fish, silkworm, livestock, poultry and so on.
3. Be used to bleach the textile, to prevent wool from shrinkage, to stop eating paper by moth, and act as rubber chlorination.
