| NOUN | substance | benzoyl peroxide | a white crystalline peroxide used in bleaching (flour or oils or fats) and as a catalyst for free radical reactions |
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| Meaning | A white crystalline peroxide used in bleaching (flour or oils or fats) and as a catalyst for free radical reactions. | |
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| Broader | bleaching agent, bleach, blanching agent, whitener | An agent that makes things white or colorless |
| peroxide | An inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O- | |
| Spanish | benzoilo, peróxido de benzoilo | |
| Catalan | benzoïl | |
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