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Cadmium  n.  (Chem.) A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore.
Cadmium yellow, a compound of cadmium and sulphur, of an intense yellow color, used as a pigment.






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... siennas, Venetian, Indian, and light reds. The only red and yellow that any one who was not, according to the expression of the new generation, presque du Louvre, could think of permitting on his palette were vermilion and cadmium. The first of this new generation was Seurat, Seurat begot Signac, Signac begot Anquetin, and Anquetin has begotten quite a galaxy of lesser lights, of whom I shall not speak in this article—of whom it is not probable that I shall ...
— Modern Painting • George Moore



Words linked to "Cadmium" :   cd, atomic number 48, nickel-cadmium accumulator, cadmium yellow pale, metal, cadmium sulfide, cadmium sulphide, hemimorphite, cadmium cell, calamine, zinc cadmium sulfide, metallic element, cadmium orange



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