HYPOCHLORITE

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Meaning:

Any salt or ester of hypochlorous acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("hypochlorite" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hypochlorite"):

calcium hypochlorite (any hypochlorite of calcium; used as a bleaching agent)

sodium hypochlorite (an unstable salt (NaOCl) used as a bleaching agent and disinfectant)