Cadmium Synonyms

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A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. c.d.
  2. atomic number 48

Words Related to Cadmium

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Cadmium Sentence Examples

  • Cadmium hydroxide, Cd(OH) 2, is obtained as a white precipitate by adding potassium hydroxide to a solution of any soluble cadmium salt.

  • The black films of tin, lead and cadmium dissolve at once in the acid, the lead film being also soluble in bleaching-powder.

  • For certain concentrated solutions the transport number is found to be greater than unity; thus for a normal solution of cadmium iodide its value is I 12.

  • Exposure to the metal cadmium may be a risk.

  • Cadmium sulphide, CdS, occurs naturally as greenockite (q.v.), and can be artificially prepared by passing sulphuretted hydrogen through acid solutions of soluble cadmium salts, when it is precipitated as a pale yellow amorphous solid.

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