Explore: Chlorinated Lime

Sodium hypochlorite Winchlor also chlorine powder, chloride of lime, chlorinated lime, "dry chlorine" Gerald F. Connell. "Key operating strategies for

Houston used chlorination of the water to stop the epidemic. His installation fed a concentrated solution of so-called "chlorinated lime" (a mixture of

that doctors breathe chlorine, wash their hands in chlorinated lime, and even sprinkle chlorinated lime about the patients' beds in cases of "contagious

clinics to disinfect their hands. In 1847, he proposed hand washing with chlorinated lime solutions at Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where

States Environmental Protection Agency) Chlorinated Drinking Water (IARC Monograph) NTP Study Report TR-392: Chlorinated & Chloraminated Water (US NIH) Guidelines

River. Chlorine, used for sanitation and the chlorination of drinking water, was sold as chlorinated lime and chlorobenzene, which was an ingredient for

implicated in its spread, Semmelweis made doctors wash their hands with chlorinated lime water before examining pregnant women. He then documented a sudden

household cleaning products can react to generate chlorinated volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These chlorinated compounds are emitted during cleaning applications

pollution incidents in the source river. Pre-chlorination In many plants the incoming water was chlorinated to minimise the growth of fouling organisms

Ignaz Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that hand-wash with a solution of chlorinated lime reduced the incidence of fatal childbed fever tenfold in maternity