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Clothing insulation

Clothing insulation is the thermal insulation provided by clothing.

Even if the main role of clothing is to protect from the cold, protective clothing also exists to protect from heat, such as for metallurgical workers or firemen. As regards thermal comfort, only the first case is considered.

Mechanisms of insulation

There are three kinds of heat transfer: conduction (exchange of heat through contact), convection (movement of fluids), and radiation.

Air has a low thermal conductivity but is very mobile. There are thus two elements that are important in protecting from the cold:

Another important factor is humidity. Water is a good conductor of heat, thus if clothes are damp — because of sweat, rain, or immersion — water replaces some or all of the air between the fibres of the clothing, causing heat loss through conduction and/or evaporation.

Hypochlorite

In chemistry, hypochlorite is an ion composed of chlorine and oxygen, with the chemical formula ClO⁻. It can combine with a number of counter ions to form hypochlorites, which may also be regarded as the salts of hypochlorous acid. Common examples include sodium hypochlorite (household bleach) and calcium hypochlorite (bleaching powder, swimming pool "chlorine").

Hypochlorites are frequently quite unstable in their pure forms and for this reason are normally handled as aqueous solutions. Their primary applications are as bleaching, disinfection and water treatment agents but they are also used in chemistry for chlorination and oxidation reactions.

Preparation

A variety of hypochlorites can be formed by a disproportionation reaction between chlorine gas and metal hydroxides. The reaction must be performed at close to room temperature, as further oxidation will occur at higher temperatures leading to the formation of chlorates. This process is widely used for the industrial production of sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) and calcium hypochlorite (Ca(ClO)₂).