Cadmium chloride hydrate is used in dyeing, printing, textiles and in metal finishing baths. It is also used as a reagent to make photographic paper and carbon paper. Further, it is utilized as an absorbing agent to absorb hydrogen sulfide as well as analytical reagent.

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