The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chloride \Chlo"ride\, n. (Chem.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).
Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac.
Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOCl2, used in bleaching and disinfecting; -- called more properly calcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous.
Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.
WordNet
n. a white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide and chloride and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect [syn: bleaching powder, chlorinated lime]
Usage examples of "chloride of lime".
The soda, which it was easy to change into carbonate of soda, and the chlorine, of which he made chloride of lime, were employed for various domestic purposes, and especially in bleaching linen.
He therefore approached the bed, and while his companion was dipping the fingers with which he had touched the lips of the corpse in chloride of lime, he uncovered the calm and pale face, which looked like that of a sleeping angel.
Beneath the Hospitals east wall the booksellers in Little Britain had draped their windows with curtains soaked in chloride of lime.
Outside the court the day was dull, and inside the light was bad and the air heavy with the fumes of stale debauch and chloride of lime.
Quantities of chloride of lime, liberally sprinkled about, are a remedy that is not much better than the evil, and the rats as big as rabbits that scurry under the banks and hedges and discourage one from lying down between watches make this the least desirable of all posts.