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Solid or liquid chemical compound used to whiten or remove the natural colour of fibres, yarns, paper, and textile fabrics. Sunlight was the chief bleaching agent up to the discovery of chlorine in 1774 by Karl Wilhelm Scheele (b. 1742—d. 1786) and the demonstration of its bleaching properties in 1785 by Claude-Louis Berthollet (b. 1748—d. 1822). In textile finishing, the bleaching process is used to produce white cloth, to prepare fabrics for other finishes, or to remove discoloration. Chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, calcium hypochlorite, and hydrogen peroxide are commonly used as bleaches.

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No references found	If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context "Graves bring solemn feelings over the mind," returned the scout, a good deal touched at the calm suffering of his companion; "and they often aid a man in his good intentions; though, for myself, I expect to leave my own bones unburied, to bleach in the woods, or to be torn asunder by the wolves. The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context It was at the dawn of day in the merry Maytime, when hedgerows are green and flowers bedeck the meadows; daisies pied and yellow cuckoo buds and fair primroses all along the briery hedges; when apple buds blossom and sweet birds sing, the lark at dawn of day, the throstle cock and cuckoo; when lads and lasses look upon each other with sweet thoughts; when busy housewives spread their linen to bleach upon the bright green grass. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context	Blau, Peter M. Blaue Reiter, Der Blaumanis, Rudolfs Blaumanis, Rudolfs Matisovich Blauvelt State Park Blavatskii, Vladimir Blavatskii, Vladimir Dmitrievich Blavatsky Blavatsky, Helena Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Blaydon blazar blaze BLAZE 2 Blaze Advisor blaze-of-grating technique Blazhe Koneski Blazhevskii, Evgenii Blazhevskii, Evgenii Viktorovich Blazhko, Sergei Blazhko, Sergei Nikolaevich blazing star blazonry BLC bldg bleach bleach liquor bleach spot bleacher seating bleachers Bleaching bleaching agent bleaching assistant bleaching clay Bleaching Clays bleaching powder Bleaching, Photographic Bleak Bleak House bleam Blears effect Bleasdale bleb BLEC Blechen, Karl Bleckley County Bled bled timber Bledsoe County Bledsoe Creek State Park bleed	BLDG BLDG BLDG BLDG BLDG bldg. BLDHO BLDINV BLDISS BLDL BLDM BLDN BLDP BLDR BLDREP BLDREQ BLDS BLDSA BLDSC BLDSCCC BLDSHIPREP BLDT BLDTF BLDUP BLDV Ble Blea Blea Bleaberry bleach Bleach (brand) Bleach (brand) Bleach (brand) Bleach (chemical) Bleach (chemical) Bleach (chemical) bleach liquor bleach liquor bleach out bleach out bleach poisoning bleach spot Bleach versus One Piece Bleachable Fancy Tallow bleached bleached bleached Bleached blonde Bleached Chemi-Thermomechanical Pulp Bleached Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp Bleached Hardwood Kraft Pulp Bleached Kraft Pulp Bleached Kraft Pulp Mill Effluent Bleached Softwood Sulphite Bleached Sulphite Pulp Bleached Tar Epoxy Paint Bleached/Unbleached Kraft-Mill Effluent bleacher bleacher Bleacher Butt Syndrome

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If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain.

Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context

"Graves bring solemn feelings over the mind," returned the scout, a good deal touched at the calm suffering of his companion; "and they often aid a man in his good intentions; though, for myself, I expect to leave my own bones unburied, to bleach in the woods, or to be torn asunder by the wolves.

The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

It was at the dawn of day in the merry Maytime, when hedgerows are green and flowers bedeck the meadows; daisies pied and yellow cuckoo buds and fair primroses all along the briery hedges; when apple buds blossom and sweet birds sing, the lark at dawn of day, the throstle cock and cuckoo; when lads and lasses look upon each other with sweet thoughts; when busy housewives spread their linen to bleach upon the bright green grass.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context

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