Chlorine reacts with slaked lime to give _________ powder.

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Solution

Calcium hypochlorite is produced industrially by treating slaked lime with chlorine gas. The reaction can be conducted in stages to give various compositions each with different concentrations of calcium hypochlorite together with unconverted lime and calcium chloride.
${C a (O H)}_{2} + {2 C l}_{2} \to C a {(O C l)}_{2} + {C a C l}_{2} + {2 H}_{2} O$

So, the correct answer is bleaching.

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