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How will you obtain bleaching powder from limestone? Write equation of the chemical reactions involved. I'm not talking about calcium hydroxide here. It's limestone, i.e. , Calcium carbonate. so please give the chemical equation of that only.
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Meghna Thapar 5 years, 2 months ago

Bleaching powder is manufactured from chlorine gas.

It is produced by the action of chlorine on dry slaked lime [Ca(OH)2].

Ca(OH)2 + Cl2 CaOCl2 + H2O

It is represented as CaOCl2

 

Uses:

  1.  For bleaching cotton and linen in the textile industry and for bleaching wood pulp in the paper industry.
  2. Used for disinfecting drinking water to make it free of germs.
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