sodium perborate

noun

Chemistry.

a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.

sodium perborate

noun

a white odourless crystalline compound used as an antiseptic and deodorant. Formula: NaBO 3 .4H 2 O

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Lever will replace the enzymes in its Drive detergent with sodium perborate, a bleach.

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To kill the trench mouth spirochete, doctors usually swab their patients' swollen gums with hydrogen peroxide, silver salts or arsphenamine, prescribe mouthwashes of sodium perborate.

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Sodium perborate, Use of in soap powders, 57.

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Sodium perborate is also used in peroxide soaps, as this substance is decomposed by water into hydrogen peroxide and sodium metaborate.

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sodium pentothal sodium peroxide

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