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Hydrogen Peroxide
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Delicate materials like silk, wool and ivory are bleached by

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Solution

H2O2 is used to bleach very delicate materials like silk, wool, ivory and hair...etc.

→ The bleacjing action of H2O2 is due its axidising nature. That means nascet oxygen which is given by H2O2 decolurises coloured substances.

H2O2 → H2O + O

colour substance + (O) → colourless.

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