Bismuth(III) chloride oxide is used in pharmaceutical industry, in the production of cosmetics, in chemical and metallurgical industries. It is used as pigment, in manufacture of artificial pearls and as a dry-cell cathodes, in photocatalysts for degradation of organic pollutant, in white-light LEDs, in the manufacture of plastics, in the synthesis of methanol, in semiconductor devices such as CCDs or photodiodes and also used in the production of permanent magnets.

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