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Calcium Hypochlorite

Published on Mar 10, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Calcium Hypochlorite

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Uses?

  • Calcium hypochlorite is used to sanitize public swimming pools.
  • It can be used to disinfect drinking water.

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Balanced chemical equation!

Dissolving calcium hypochlorite in water

Link to the reaction

(link in the slide notes)

FUN FACT


Calcium hypochlorite can be used in a Haloform reaction to form chloroform!

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZOl48Ppanw

"Chlorine Oxides and Chlorine Oxygen Acids". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry.

https://omegamanjournal.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/calcium-hypochlorite/