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perborate

[ per-bawr-eyt, -bohr- ]

noun

Chemistry.
  1. a salt of perboric acid, as sodium perborate, NaBO 3 â‹…4±á 2 O, used for bleaching, disinfecting, etc.


perborate

/ ±èəˈ²úɔ˰ù±ðɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. any of certain salts derived, or apparently derived, from perboric acid. Perborates are used as bleaches in washing powders See sodium perborate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of perborate1

First recorded in 1880–85; per- + borate
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Lever will replace the enzymes in its Drive detergent with sodium perborate, a bleach.

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.

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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The perborate should be added when the powder is perfectly dry or it loses its bleaching properties.

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