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bismuth oxychloride
noun
Chemistry.
- a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, BiOCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, face powders, and artificial pearls.
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Hoping natural products would be better, Drummond turned to dye- and preservative-free mineral makeup, but found it made his skin itch  which he traced to bismuth oxychloride.
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Many popular lines use bismuth oxychloride, a mineral byproduct of lead and copper processing.
White Pigments.—Barium sulphate and bismuth oxychloride.
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When the lacquer is to be dried at a high temperature barium sulphate is preferable, but when it is dried at an ordinary temperature bismuth oxychloride is better.
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