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sodium hypochlorite

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a greenish, unstable salt, NaOCl, usually stored in solution, used esp. as a bleaching agent and disinfectant

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noun
An unstable salt, NaOCl, usually stored in solution and used as a fungicide and an oxidizing bleach.

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