He discovered bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty.
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Calcium hypochlorite is also an ingredient in bleaching powder, used for bleaching cotton and linen.
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He moved to Glasgow and established a factory for manufacturing bleaching powder, which was patented in 1798.
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He is known for his technique of macintosh waterproofing and he also assisted in the invention of bleaching powder.
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Later a second plant was built at Hebburn, raising production of bleaching powder alone to twenty thousand tons by 1865.
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The process involved reacting chlorine and dry slaked lime to form bleaching powder, a mixture of calcium hypochlorite and other derivatives.
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The bleaching powder and lye sprinkled around those pits and other spots to prevent insects from breeding seems, to the naked eye, to be doing the job.
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Leblanc producers were unable to compete with Solvay soda ash, and their soda ash production was effectively an adjunct to their still profitable production of chlorine, bleaching powder etc.