cadmium

See also: Cadmium

English

Chemical element
Cd
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Cadmium.

Etymology

1817, from Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía, “calamine”), a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the king Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăd'mēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈkædmiəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: cad‧mi‧um

Noun

cadmium (countable and uncountable, plural cadmiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48: a soft, silvery-white metal.
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     CSPI says the Trump Administration could take steps to protect consumers from each of these chemicals and support FDA’s broader post-market assessment efforts. It could ensure that FDA sets health-protective limits on heavy metals, like lead, arsenic, and cadmium, in foods consumed by children.

3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• cadmian
• cadmic
• cadmiferous
• cadmium acetate
• cadmium antimonide
• cadmium arsenide
• cadmium azide
• cadmium bromide
• cadmium carbonate
• cadmium cell
• cadmium chloride
• cadmium chromate
• cadmium cyanide
• cadmium cycle
• 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
• cadmiuria
• cadmopone
• cadmoselite
• cadmous
• dicadmium
• epicadmium
• mercury cadmium telluride
• nicad
• noncadmium
• organocadmium
• radiocadmium

Related terms

• Cadmean, Cadmian
• cadmia
• cadmy

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: kadmium (af)
• Albanian: kadmium (sq) ?
• Arabic: كَادْمِيُوم m (kadmiyum)
• Armenian: կադմիում (hy) (kadmium)
• Asturian: cadmiu (ast) m
• Basque: kadmioa
• Belarusian: ка́дмій m (kádmij)
• Breton: kadmiom ?
• Bulgarian: ка́дмий m (kádmij)
• Catalan: cadmi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎘 / 镉 (zh) (gé)

• Cornish: cadmyum ?
• Czech: kadmium (cs) n
• Danish: kadmium n
• Dutch: cadmium (nl) n
• Esperanto: kadmio (eo)
• Estonian: kaadmium (et)
• Faroese: kadmium n
• Finnish: kadmium (fi)
• French: cadmium (fr) m
• Friulian: cadmi ?
• Galician: cadmio (gl) m
• Georgian: კადმიუმი (ḳadmiumi)
• German: Kadmium (de) n, Cadmium (de) n
• Greek: κάδμιο (el) n (kádmio)
• Hebrew: קדמיום (he) m (kádmiyum)
• Hindi: मृज्यातु ? (mŕjyātu)
• Hungarian: kadmium (hu)
• Icelandic: kadmín (is) n
• Interlingua: cadmium
• Irish: caidmiam (ga) m
• Italian: cadmio (it) m
• Japanese: カドミウム (ja) (kadomiumu)
• Kashubian: kadm
• Kazakh: кадмий (kk) (kadmii)
• Khmer: កាត់ម្ញ៉ូម (katmñoum), កាត់ម្យូម (katmyuum)
• Korean: 카드뮴 (ko) (kadeumyum)
• Latin: cadmium (la) n
• Latvian: kadmijs m
• Lithuanian: kadmis (lt) ?
• Luxembourgish: Kadmium ?
• Macedonian: кадмиум (mk) m (kadmium)
• Malay: kadmium
• Maltese: kadmju m
• Manx: cadmium ?
• Maori: konuhirimā
• Mongolian: кадми (mn) (kadmi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kadmium n

  Nynorsk: kadmium (nn) n

• Occitan: cadmi (oc) m
• Persian: کادمیوم (fa) (kâdmiyom)
• Polish: kadm (pl) m
• Portuguese: cádmio (pt) m
• Romanian: cadmiu (ro) n
• Russian: ка́дмий (ru) m (kádmij)
• Scottish Gaelic: cadmium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кадмиjум m, кадмиj m

  Roman: kadmijum m, kadmij (sh) m

• Slovak: kadmium (sk) n
• Slovene: kadmij (sl) ?
• Spanish: cadmio (es) m
• Swedish: kadmium (sv) n
• Tagalog: kadmiyo
• Tajik: кадмий (kadmiy)
• Tamil: கட்மியம் (kaṭmiyam)
• Thai: แคดเมียม (kɛ́t-mîiam)
• Turkish: kadmiyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: ка́дмій (uk) m (kádmij)
• Uzbek: кадмий (uz) (kadmiy), kadmiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: catmi, cađimi
• Volapük: kadmin (vo)
• Welsh: cadmiwm (cy) m
• West Frisian: cadmium ?

See also

• greenockite
• itai-itai disease

Danish

Chemical element
Cd
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Alternative forms

• kadmium

Etymology

From Latin cadmium. Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía) +‎ -ium.

Noun

cadmium n (singular definite cadmiummet, not used in plural form)

1. cadmium

Declension

Declension of cadmium

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	cadmium	cadmiummet
genitive	cadmiums	cadmiummets

References

• “cadmium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Chemical element
Cd
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Next: indium (In)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Cadmium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑt.mi.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cad‧mi‧um

Noun

cadmium n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. cadmium [from late 1810s]

Derived terms

• cadmiumgeel
• cadmiumgroen
• cadmiumoranje
• cadmiumrood

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad.mjɔm/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

cadmium m (uncountable)

1. cadmium

Further reading

• “cadmium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Chemical element
Cd
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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkad.mi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkad.mi.um]

Noun

cadmium n (genitive cadmiī); second declension

1. cadmium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cadmium	cadmia
genitive	cadmiī	cadmiōrum
dative	cadmiō	cadmiīs
accusative	cadmium	cadmia
ablative	cadmiō	cadmiīs
vocative	cadmium	cadmia