sodium perborate

American

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 British

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sodium perborate, Use of in soap powders, 57.

From Project Gutenberg

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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