Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chlorine_dioxide

1 sense of chlorine dioxide

Sense 1
chlorine dioxide -- (an explosive gas (ClO2) used chiefly in bleaching paper or starch or soap or flour and in water purification)
       => dioxide -- (an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in the molecule)
       => bleaching agent, bleach, blanching agent, whitener -- (an agent that makes things white or colorless)