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Hypochlorous acid   Listen
Hypochlorous acid

noun
1.
A weak unstable acid known only in solution and in its salts; used as a bleaching agent and as an oxidizing agent.





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... stoppers, through which the battery terminals, made of platinum iridium alloy, are led. The gas is liberated at about the rate of two liters per hour, and has very powerful chemical properties. It smells somewhat like hypochlorous acid, etches dry glass, and decomposes water, liberating ozone, and forming hydrofluoric acid. The non-metallic elements, with the exception of chlorine, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon, combine directly with it, evolving in most cases both light and heat. It combines with hydrogen, even in the dark, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 • Various


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