Stabilizing agents sodium borate

The ability of borate to form solid-stable compounds with the oxidizing agent hydrogen peroxide formed the basis for bleach technology employed in domestic laundry detergents for most of the twentieth century. Such compounds, referred to as perborates (the sodium perborates are listed in Table 17.1), rely for their excellent stability on the existence of peroxy di-borate anions (Figure 17.4) [23]. 

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