A Study of the Mechanism of Bleaching Cotton Using Peracids and Hydrogen Peroxide as Model Systems

✍ Scribed by Jacob Winkler; Elaine R. Smith; Richard G. Compton

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 195
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9797
• DOI: 10.1006/jcis.1997.5168

✦ Synopsis

dence and concluded that this showed that the poorer perfor-The mechanism of bleaching cotton dyed with the reactive dye mance of hydrogen peroxide at low temperatures is only a 5-(4,6-dichlorotriazinyl)aminofluorescein has been investigated kinetic phenomenon, and given longer reaction time, good using hydrogen peroxide as a model system. A general strategy for bleaching results can be obtained at low temperatures (4).

the study of the mechanism and kinetics of bleaching is presented

For cotton fabrics, an additional factor plays an additional followed by the relevant theory to enable a discriminatory assessrole compared to bulk solution experiments. As the pH of the ment of the experimental data obtained. A brief extension to the surrounding solution increases, the cotton surface becomes industrially relevant class of peracid bleaches is given. ᭧ 1997 increasingly negatively charged, hence repelling negatively Academic Press charged species. Since the bleaching of a stained cloth is