Bleach vs. Decolorant — What's the Difference?

Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product that is used industrially and domestically to remove color from a fabric or fiber or to clean or to remove stains in a process called bleaching. It often refers, specifically, to a dilute solution of sodium hypochlorite, also called "liquid bleach".

A bleaching agent.

To remove the color from, as by means of chemical agents or sunlight

A substance that removes colour, or bleaches.

To make white or colorless

A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

To whiten by causing the death or expulsion of algal symbionts from (coral).

To act as or use a bleach.

To become white as a result of the loss of algal symbionts, usually following an environmental stress such as increased water temperature. Used of coral.

A chemical agent used for bleaching.

The act of bleaching.

The degree of bleaching obtained.

(archaic) Pale; bleak.

(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).

(intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).

To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.

To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.

(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.

(countable) A variety of bleach.

An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.

A disease of the skin.

To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

The whiteness that results from removing the color from something;

An agent that makes things white or colorless

The act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)

Remove color from;

Make whiter or lighter;