"bleaching powder" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun phrase that refers to a chemical compound used for bleaching or whitening purposes. Example: "The laundry detergent contained bleaching powder, which helped remove stubborn stains from my white shirt."
A sanitation worker threw handfuls of bleaching powder on piles of waste.
They are also taught not to drink floodwater without boiling it and to use bleaching powder as a disinfectant.
The chlorine, absorbed in lime, was used to make bleaching powder, for which there was a growing demand.
On Saturday afternoon, Sanjay Gupta, the man in charge of relief operations, was talking about preventing disease with bleaching powder when the building began to quiver.
The first large-scale use of chlorine was in the manufacture of bleaching powder for use in making paper and cotton textiles.
Bleaching powder was later replaced by liquid chlorine, which also came into widespread use as a germicide for public water supplies.
The chlorine obtained was employed in the manufacture of bleaching powder (a dry substance that releases chlorine on treatment with acid) by reaction with lime.
He went on to estimate the strength of bleaching powder (1824), using a solution of indigo to signify when the reaction was complete.
Bleaching powder, a solid combination of chlorine and slaked lime, introduced in 1799 by Scottish chemist Charles Tennant, was thereafter produced in large quantity to bleach cloth and paper.
In the production of bleaching powder, slaked lime spread on the floors of large rectangular chambers of lead or concrete is exposed to chlorine gas; or lime is propelled through horizontal tubes that are fed with the gas.
Bleaching powder, a solid combination of chlorine and slaked lime, introduced in 1799 by the Scottish chemist Charles Tennant, was thereafter produced in large quantity to bleach cloth and paper.
