Purex

Clothes cleaning product

Purex is a brand name for household laundry detergent and bleach products sold primarily in North America.

The name has also been applied to an industrial chemical process (PUREX, an acronym for Plutonium Uranium Reduction Extraction) used in nuclear fuel reprocessing to separate plutonium and uranium from spent reactor fuel.

In everyday usage, Purex almost always refers to the cleaning products rather than the nuclear application.

laundry

detergent

Chemical cleaning agent

rinse cycle · spin · dryer · clothesline · whites · colors · garments · linens · towels · delicates

bleach

chlorine

Halogen disinfectant element

stain remover · oxidizing · dilution · concentrated · brightening

brand

trademark

Registered commercial identifier

supermarket · Walmart · coupon · packaging · competitor

Phrases
Family

pure, purity, purify, purification, purifier, purely, impure, impurity

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G