"Cadmium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Following the periodic table, 99 would probably have an even lower melting point than mercury, be silvery, dense and heavy—and perhaps slightly radioactive. The series under the B family of Group II is Magnesium, Zinc, Cadmium, Mercury—and 99. The melting point is going down all the way, and they're all silvery metals. I'm going to try copper, and I fully expect it to turn silvery—in fact, ...
— The Ultimate Weapon • John Wood Campbell
... bit," the Count says, beginning to use his hands. "You only need three colours, you know. Very simple." "Which colours are they?" I inquire ignorantly. "Why, you know of course," he says surprised. "Burnt sienna, cadmium yellow, and—er—there! I can't think of it. I know it as well as I know my own face. So do you. Well, that's ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... "Pale cadmium would be better," she said, quietly, with a touch of indifference in her tone, and led the way out of the forest to the ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith |
