cadmium
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Cadmium.
Etymology
1817, from Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía, “calamine”), a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the god Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: kăd'mēəm, IPA(key): /ˈkædmiəm/
- Hyphenation: cad‧mi‧um
Noun
cadmium (countable and uncountable, plural cadmiums)
- A metallic chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
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
Translations
chemical element
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kad.mjɔm/
Further reading
- “cadmium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkad.mi.um/, [ˈkad.mi.ũ]
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