chlorine dioxide

English Thesaurus

1. an explosive gas (ClO2) used chiefly in bleaching paper or starch or soap or flour and in water purification (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	blanching agent, bleach, bleaching agent, whitener,
definition	:	an agent that makes things white or colorless (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	dioxide,
definition	:	an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in the molecule (noun.substance)