Chlorine antiseptic/disinfectant

Storage Protect from light highly unstable may be store for a few days if kept -20 C Uses Textile and fiber bleaching, water purification, antiseptic, disinfectant, sanitizer chlorinating agent Manuf./Distrib. Arch Chems. http //www.archchemicals.com Trade Name Synonyms HyPure A [Olin/Chlor Alkali http //www.oiinchioraikaii.com], J-3 Sol n. t[Arch Chems./HTH Water Prods.]... 

Iodine has different medical uses. The antiseptic tincture of iodine (3% iodine and 2.5% potassium iodide in alcohol) has been known since 1828. PVPI is a modern disinfectant with 1-3% iodine, bound in a complex way to polyvinylpyrroHdone. It is ap-pHed to the skin before surgical operations. Iodine is used as an alternative to chlorine for disinfection of drinking water. Even in such small concentrations as 1 ppm, iodine has a positive effect and is without the negative secondary effects characteristic of chlorine. 

Povidone—iodine is a brown, water-soluble powder containing approximately 10% iodine. However, the amount of free iodine, which is responsible for the antimicrobial activity, is low in a concentrated solution, but is released as the solution is diluted (41). Concentrated solutions have actually been contaminated with bacteria (42). For use as an antiseptic, povidine—iodine is diluted with water or alcohol to a concentration of 1% iodine. Detergents are added if it is used as a surgical scmb. lodophors are important as broad-spectmm antiseptics for the skin, although they do not have the persistent action of some other antiseptics. They are also used as disinfectants for clinical thermometers that have been used by tuberculous patients, for surface disinfection of tables, etc, and for clean equipment in hospitals, food plants, and dairies, much as chlorine disinfectants are used. 

In addition to being the most widely used disinfectant for water treatment, chlorine is extensively used in a variety of products, including paper products, dyestuffs, textiles, petroleum products, pharmaceuticals, antiseptics, insecticides, foodstuffs, solvents, paints, and other consumer products. Most chlorine produced is used in the manufacture of chlorinated compounds for sanitation, pulp bleaching, disinfectants, and textile processing. It is also used in the manufacture of chlorates, chloroform, and carbon tetrachloride and in the extraction of bromine. Among other past uses, chlorine served as a war gas during World War I. 

Hypochlorous acid is used in bleaching fibers and textiles as an antiseptic and as a disinfectant for purification. It also is used as a chlorinating agent for aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons. 

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Halogens Oxidize cell components in absence of organic matter Chlorine is used to kill pathogens in water and to disinfect utensils, and iodine/iodine compounds are as antiseptics... 

Chlorine dioxide is a strong oxidizing agent, bactericide, and antiseptic. It is used in bleaching cellulose, paper pulp, leather, flour, fats and oils, textiles, and beestpwax, and in deodorizing and purifying water. It is currently considered as an alternative to chlorine, as a disinfectant for public water supplies in the United States. It is also used in the manufacture of many chlorite salts. 

Chlorine is a very widely used disinfectant and antiseptic. Calcium hypochlorite [Ca(OCl)2] was first used in hospital maternity wards in 1847 by the pioneering Hungarian physician Ignatz Semmelweis. Semmelweis insisted that hospital workers cleanse their hands in a Ca(OCl)2 solution and dramatically reduced the incidence of infection. Today, calcium hypochlorite is more commonly used to disinfect bedding, clothing, restaurant eating utensils, slaughterhouses, bams, and dairies. 

MAJOR USES Used in the manufacture of carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene, chlorinated hydrocarbons, polychloroprene, polyvinylchloride, hydrogen chloride, hypochlorous acid, ethylene dichloride, metallic chlorides, chlorobenzene, chloroacetic acid, chlorinated lime, chloroform Used in the manufacturing process of water purification, flame retardant compounds, paper products, textiles, petroleum products, medicines, antiseptics, insecticides, solvents, paints, plastics, disinfectants, synthetic rubber. 

OTHER COMMENTS used in bleaching cellulose, flour, leather, oils, textiles, and beeswax useful in the purification of water used to control taste and odor of water used in the purification of swimming pool water and as a wastewater disinfecting agent also used in the manufacture of chlorine salts a bactericide, antiseptic and deodorizer. 

In 1881, Bernard Courtois (1777-1838) introduced another halogen, iodine, extracting the element from wracks at the seashore. William Wallace proposed iodine tincture in 1835 to disinfect wounds. It was superseded by iodoform, which was less of an irritant, invented by Georges Simon Serullas (1774-1832). Structurally, it was very comparable to chloroform, the chlorine atom being substituted by an iodine one. Aqueous iodine solutions were proposed by Casimir Davaine (Lugol s solution) as antiseptics. 

Products and Uses A common disinfectant, antiseptic, whitening agent, and purifying agent found in household laundry bleach, water treatments, swimming pool treatments, and mild chlorinating agents. 

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