| Common household cleaners can contain simple inorganic chemicals such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrochloric acid. |
| Sodium chlorite, hypochlorite, perborate, and peroxide are used to bleach paper, cotton, and rayon. |
| When you wash napery, make a prewash with cold water and sodium hypochlorite. |
| When bubbled through alkaline water, chlorine gas disproportionates to form chloride ion and hypochlorite ion. |
| Brown stains will appear when washing clothes with a bleaching agent that contains hypochlorite. |
| The hypochlorite ion is an oxidizing agent that sterilizes water by ridding it of microorganisms. |
