Cadmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cd and atomic number 48. This soft, silvery-white metal is chemically similar to the two other stable metals...
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The nickel–cadmium battery (Ni–Cd battery or NiCad battery) is a type of rechargeable battery using nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as electrodes...
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Cadmium is a naturally occurring toxic metal with common exposure in industrial workplaces, plant soils, and from smoking. Due to its low permissible...
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Cadmium pigments are a class of pigments that contain cadmium. Most of the cadmium produced worldwide has been for use in rechargeable nickel–cadmium...
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Cadmium sulfide is the inorganic compound with the formula CdS. Cadmium sulfide is a yellow salt. It occurs in nature with two different crystal structures...
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Naturally occurring cadmium (48Cd) is composed of 8 isotopes. For two of them, natural radioactivity was observed, and three others are predicted to be...
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Cadmium chloride is a white crystalline compound of cadmium and chloride, with the formula CdCl2. This salt is a hygroscopic solid that is highly soluble...
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Cadmium is a chemical element with the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. Cadmium may also refer to: Cadmium (album), album by Sky "Cadmium" (song), song...
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Control rod (redirect from Silver-indium-cadmium)
plutonium. Their compositions include chemical elements such as boron, cadmium, silver, hafnium, or indium, that are capable of absorbing many neutrons...
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Cadmium nitride is a nitride of cadmium with the chemical formula Cd3N2. Cadmium nitride can be produced by thermal decomposition of cadmium amide at 180 °C:...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) is a stable crystalline compound formed from cadmium and tellurium. It is mainly used as the semiconducting material in cadmium...
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Itai-itai disease (category Cadmium)
itai-itai byō, "it hurts-it hurts disease") was the name given to the mass cadmium poisoning of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, starting around 1912. The term "itai-itai...
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Chocolate (redirect from Cadmium in cocoa powder)
maximum levels of cadmium in foodstuffs Text with EEA relevance Nieburg O (15 September 2016). "Killing at source: How to avoid cadmium and lead in chocolate"...
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Cocoa solids (section Cadmium content)
a limit for cadmium in foods or health products, the state of California has established a maximum allowable daily level of oral cadmium exposure of 4...
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Cadmium oxide is an inorganic compound with the formula CdO. It is one of the main precursors to other cadmium compounds. It crystallizes in a cubic rocksalt...
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Cadmium selenate is a selenate of cadmium, with the chemical formula CdSeO4. Cadmium selenate can be formed by the reaction of cadmium oxide and selenic...
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Plating (redirect from Cadmium plating)
composite electroplating. Cadmium plating is under scrutiny because of the environmental toxicity of the cadmium metal. Cadmium plating is widely used in...
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Cadmium fluoride (CdF2) is a mostly water-insoluble source of cadmium used in oxygen-sensitive applications, such as the production of metallic alloys...
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Cadmium selenide is an inorganic compound with the formula CdSe. It is a black to red-black solid that is classified as a II-VI semiconductor of the n-type...
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Cadmium (stylized "cadmium…") is the sixth album by the progressive-classical rock band Sky, released in November 1983. The album contents were a mixture...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaics is a photovoltaic (PV) technology based on the use of cadmium telluride in a thin semiconductor layer designed to...
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Group 12 element (section Cadmium)
group of chemical elements in the periodic table. It includes zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), and copernicium (Cn). Formerly this group was named...
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to contain carbonic anhydrase with a cadmium ion in place of zinc. Previously, it had been believed that cadmium was a toxic metal with no biological...
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Cadmium tellurite is the tellurite salt of cadmium, with the chemical formula CdTeO3. Cadmium tellurite can be prepared by the reaction of cadmium sulfate...
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Cadmium chromate is the inorganic compound with the formula CdCrO4. It is relevant to chromate conversion coating, which is used to passivate common metal...
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Cadmium azide is an inorganic chemical compound with the formula Cd(N3)2. It is composed of the cadmium cation (Cd2+) and the azide anions (N−3). Cadmium...
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of cadmium. According to a Consumer Reports study in 2022, several dark chocolate products were found to contain high levels of lead and cadmium when...
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Memory effect (redirect from Memory Effect in Nickel-Cadmium Rechargeable Batteries)
observed in nickel-cadmium rechargeable batteries that causes them to hold less charge. It describes the situation in which nickel-cadmium batteries gradually...
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Photoresistor (redirect from Cadmium sulfide photocell)
audio signal compression. Photoresistors come in many types. Inexpensive cadmium sulfide (CdS) cells can be found in many consumer items such as camera...
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Red pigments (section Cadmium red)
bright pigments, including cadmium orange and cadmium yellow. It is known for maintaining its brightness. Cadmium Red Cadmium red pigments used by Claude...
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