cadmium

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English

Chemical element
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Cadmium.

Etymology

From Greek Καδμεία (calamine), a Cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the god, Κάδμος (Cadmus)

Noun

cadmium (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. a metallic chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48.

Derived terms

Derived terms

cadmic cadmiferous cadmium acetate cadmium antimonide cadmium arsenide cadmium azide cadmium bromide cadmium carbonate cadmium cell cadmium chloride cadmium chromate cadmium cyanide cadmium fluoride cadmium green cadmium hydroxide cadmium iodate cadmium iodide cadmium mercury cell cadmium metasilicate cadmium metatantalate cadmium metazirconate cadmium molybdate cadmium niobate

cadmium nitrate cadmium orange cadmium oxalate cadmium oxide cadmium phosphate cadmium phosphide cadmium red cadmium selenide cadmium selenite cadmium sulfate, cadmium sulphate cadmium sulfide, cadmium sulphide cadmium sulfite, cadmium sulphite cadmium tellurate cadmium telluride cadmium titanate cadmium tungstate cadmium vanadate cadmium yellow cadmium zinc telluride cadmoselite mercury cadmium telluride nicad

Related terms

Related terms

cadmia Cadmean, Cadmian

cadmy

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: kadmium
• Albanian: kadmium (sq)
• Arabic: كادميوم (ar) (kádmiyum) m
• Armenian: կադմիում (hy) (kadmium)
• Asturian: cadmiu (ast) m
• Basque: kadmioa
• Belarusian: кадмiй (kádmij) m
• Breton: kadmiom
• Bulgarian: кадмий (bg) (kádmij) m
• Catalan: cadmi
• Chinese: 鎘, 镉 (gé)
• Cornish: cadmyum
• Czech: kadmium (cs)
• Danish: kadmium (da)
• Dutch: cadmium (nl) n
• Esperanto: kadmio (eo)
• Estonian: kaadmium (et)
• Faroese: kadmium (fo)
• Finnish: kadmium (fi)
• French: cadmium (fr) m
• Friulian: cadmi
• Galician: cadmio
• Georgian: კადმიუმი (kadmiumi)
• German: Kadmium (de) n, Cadmium (de) n
• Greek: κάδμιο (el) (kádmio) n
• Hebrew: קדמיום (kádmiyum)
• Hindi: मृज्यातु (hi) (mrujyaatu)
• Hungarian: kadmium (hu)
• Icelandic: kadmín (is)
• Interlingua: cadmium
• Irish: caidmiam (ga)
• Italian: cadmio (it) m
• Japanese: カドミウム (ja) (kadomiumu)
• Kashubian: kadm
• Kazakh: кадмий (kk) (kadmiy)

• Korean: 카드뮴 (kadeumyum)
• Latin: cadmium (la) n
• Latvian: kadmijs
• Lithuanian: kadmis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Kadmium
• Macedonian: кадмиум (kádmium) m
• Malay: kadmium (ms)
• Maltese: kadmju
• Manx: cadmium
• Mongolian: кадми (kadmi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kadmium (no) n

  Nynorsk: kadmium (nn) n

• Persian: کادمیوم (fa) (kâdmiyom)
• Polish: kadm (pl) m
• Portuguese: cádmio (pt) m
• Roman: kadmijum) m, kadmij (sh) m
• Romanian: cadmiu (ro) n
• Russian: кадмий (ru) (kádmij) m
• Scottish Gaelic: caidmiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кадмиjум (sh) m, кадмиj (sh) m

• Slovak: kadmium (sk)
• Slovene: kadmij (sl)
• Spanish: cadmio (es) m
• Swedish: kadmium (sv) n
• Tajik: кадмий (tg) (kadmi')
• Tamil: கட்மியம் (kaţmiyam)
• Thai: แคดเมียม (khaetmiam)
• Turkish: kadmiyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: кадмiй (kádmij) m
• Uzbek: кадмий (uz) (kadmiy)
• Vietnamese: catmi, cađimi
• Volapük: kadmin (vo)
• Welsh: cadmiwm
• West Frisian: cadmium

See also

• greenockite
• itai-itai disease

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
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	Next: indium (In)

Pronunciation

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Noun

cadmium n (uncountable)

1. cadmium

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kad.mjɔm/

Noun

cadmium m (uncountable)

1. cadmium

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

cadmium (genitive cadmiī); n, second declension

1. cadmium

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	cadmium	cadmia
genitive	cadmiī	cadmiōrum
dative	cadmiō	cadmiīs
accusative	cadmium	cadmia
ablative	cadmiō	cadmiīs
vocative	cadmium	cadmia