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| | NPI: Copper and compounds fact sheet |
 | | Copper (II) chloride is used as a catalyst for organic and inorganic reactions, mordant for dyeing and printing textiles, pigment for glass and ceramics, wood preservative, disinfectant, insecticide, fungicide, and herbicide, and as a catalyst in the production of chlorine from hydrogen chloride. |
 | | It is also used in the petroleum industry as a purifying agent, in the manufacture of indelible, invisible, and laundry marking inks, in metallurgy to recover mercury from ores, in refining copper, silver and gold, in tinting baths for iron and tin, in photography, in pyrotechnics, and to remove lead compounds from petrol and oils. |
 | | Copper (II) chloride is an odourless yellow to brown microcrystalline powder with a melting point of 620 °C and specific gravity 3.4. |
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