Advantage chlorite

CNC CHLORITE is a modified sodium chlorite product designed to give the excellent bleaching with fiber protection that is normal for sodium chlorite but with the added advantage of anti-corrosion properties to stainless steels and reduced hazards in handling. 

This is somewhat complicated and expensive. Nevertheless, the usage of chlorite in the bleaching of textiles and the treatment of water and of wastewater is increasing due to certain advantages (e.g. fiber-protecting mild oxidant, safer handling of the chemicals, no decomposition... 

Rectorite is one of an almost infinite number of randomly mixed layer clays (411. collectively called illites, which include several other ordered interstratified varieties, including chlorite, corrensite and allevardite. Rectorite has the advantages of a mica and a smectite, in that alternate interlayers are expanding and non-expanding. It may be viewed as an ordered synthetic mica-montmorillonite (SMM) in the nomenclature familiar to catalytic... 

The third reagent used for the preparation of wood holocelluloses, per-oxyacetic add, is of more recent date. It has been claimed to have certain advantages over sodium chlorite. Leopold found that the peroxyacetic acid method, when used in conjunction with sodium borohydride, gives a superior holocellulose. It is interesting to note that both peroxyacetic acid and chlorine dioxide are, apparently, able to effect an oxidative ringopening of phenolic compounds. ... 

As the chlorine-2-aminoethanol method offers no obvious advantages in the case of softwoods, most investigators have used chlorite holocelluloses for isolating the hemicelluloses. The most common procedure has been to subject the holocellulose to a preliminary extraction with aqueous potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide solution. Low concentrations of alkali favor removal of the acidic xylan, as does the use of potassium... 

AU IC methods used for bromate, chlorite, and chlorate analyses have some advantages and disadvantages. Nevertheless, at present IC is the only accepted standard method for the analysis of inorganic oxyhalide disinfection by-products. The choice of the most convenient and the best method for the determination of specific oxyhahdes depends on many factors, such as expected concentration of analyte, sample matrix, limit of determination obtainable by the method used, and its availability. 

The synthesis of chlorine dioxide has eui extensive literature, especially in the patent area. This is doubtless because it is widely used as a bleach, particularly for wood pulp and flour. The primary source of chlorine dioxide is sodium chlorate. Sodium chlorite also serves as a source, but since this compound itself is always made from chlorine dioxide, its advantages derive from its ease of application or from the purity of the chlorine dioxide produced. 

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