percarbonate

(If this works with sodium perborate or sodium percarbonate, you are back to oxygen.

At room temperature, solid sodium percarbonate has the orthorhombic crystal structure, with the Cmca crystallographic space group.

Sodium percarbonate, actually a perhydrate of sodium carbonate.

Sodium percarbonate is used in such products as OxiClean and Tide laundry detergent.

However, despite its name, "Borateem" laundry bleach no longer contains any boron compounds, using sodium percarbonate instead as a bleaching agent.

Sodium percarbonate is produced industrially by reaction of sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide, followed by crystallization.

Bleaching agents that do not contain chlorine most often are based on peroxides, such as hydrogen peroxide, sodium percarbonate and sodium perborate.

Other major industrial applications for hydrogen peroxide include the manufacture of sodium percarbonate and sodium perborate, used as mild bleaches in laundry detergents.

Such agents include sodium perborate, sodium percarbonate, sodium perphosphate, sodium persulfate, and urea peroxide.

Sodium percarbonate is a chemical, an adduct of sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide (a perhydrate), with formula 2NaCO 3HO.

Unlike sodium percarbonate and perphosphate, the sodium perborate is not simply an adduct with hydrogen peroxide, and it does not contain an individual BO ion.

Examples include the adduct between hydrogen peroxide and sodium carbonate to give sodium percarbonate, and the addition of sodium bisulfite to an aldehyde to give a sulfonate.

Sodium perborate and sodium percarbonate are important consumer and industrial bleaching agents; they stabilize hydrogen peroxide and limit side reactions (e.g. reduction and decomposition note below).

Oxyper is a Solvay coated and stabilised sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate (or sodium percarbonate) which combines the properties of sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide.

It contains not more than 5% of anionic surfactants, nonionic surfactants, 15-30% of sodium carbonate, sodium percarbonate (the bleaching compound), and a perfume formula containing limonene.

As an oxidizing agent, sodium percarbonate is an ingredient in a number of home and laundry cleaning products, including bleach products such as OxiClean, Tide laundry detergent, and Vanish.

Sodium percarbonate can be used in organic synthesis as a convenient source of anhydrous HO, in particular in solvents that cannot dissolve the carbonate but can leach the HO out of it.

It is known as a bleaching activator for active oxygen sources, allowing formulas containing hydrogen peroxide releasing chemicals (specifically the sodium perborate, sodium percarbonate, sodium perphosphate, sodium persulfate, and urea peroxide.

W. Jones 'Applications of hydrogen peroxide and its derivatives' (1999) Royal Society of Chemistry ISBN 0854045368 Sodium percarbonate is the active ingredient in many powdered oxygen eco-friendly bleach products, including OxiClean.

Unilever's research teams found a manganese(IV)-based catalyst that sped up the decomposition of sodium perborate and sodium percarbonate which act as bleaches in the washing process, increasing the cleaning performance noticeably and allowing use of lower temperatures.