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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:bleaching agent
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Accession:CHEBI:132717 term browser browse the term
Definition:A reagent that lightens or whitens a substrate through chemical reaction. Bleaching reactions usually involve oxidative or reductive processes that degrade colour systems. Bleaching can occur by destroying one or more of the double bonds in the conjugated chain, by cleaving the conjugated chain, or by oxidation of one of the other moieties in the conjugated chain. Their reactivity results in many bleaches having strong bactericidal, disinfecting, and sterilising properties.
Synonyms:xref: Wikipedia:Bleach



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      CHEBI ontology 19911
        role 19854
          application 19722
            reagent 18075
              bleaching agent 3597
                Calcium hypochlorite 0
                O-methyl-L-threonine + 0
                ammonium thiosulfate 0
                chlorine dioxide + 0
                dichlorine 380
                disodium perborate hexahydrate 0
                food bleaching agent + 141
                hydrogen peroxide + 3331
                sodium dithionite 0
                sodium hypochlorite 21
                sodium perborate 0
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