cadmium
Appearance
See also: Cadmium
English
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Etymology
[edit]1817, from Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía, “calamine”), a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the king Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: kăd'mēəm, IPA(key): /ˈkædmiəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Hyphenation: cad‧mi‧um
Noun
[edit]cadmium (countable and uncountable, plural cadmiums)
- A chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48: a soft, silvery-white metal.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
Derived terms
[edit]- cadmian
- 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
- cadmiuria
- cadmopone
- cadmoselite
- cadmous
- dicadmium
- epicadmium
- mercury cadmium telluride
- nicad
- noncadmium
- organocadmium
- radiocadmium
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]chemical element
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See also
[edit]Danish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cadmium
- cadmium
Dutch
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cadmium n (uncountable)
- cadmium [from late 1810s]
Derived terms
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cadmium m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “cadmium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkad.mi.um/, [ˈkäd̪miʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkad.mi.um/, [ˈkäd̪mium]
Noun
[edit]cadmium n (genitive cadmiī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
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