cadmium

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)

    (file)

• Hyphenation: cad‧mi‧um

Noun

cadmium (countable and uncountable, plural cadmiums)

1. 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

• 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

• 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 ? 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 ? Lithuanian: kadmis (lt) ? Luxembourgish: Kadmium ? Macedonian: кадмиум m (kadmium) Malay: kadmium Maltese: kadmju ? Manx: cadmium ? 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) ? 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

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Danish

Alternative forms

• kadmium

Noun

cadmium

1. cadmium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Cd
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Etymology

Borrowed from German Cadmium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑt.mi.ʏm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cad‧mi‧um

Noun

cadmium n (uncountable)

1. cadmium [from late 1810s]

Derived terms

• cadmiumgeel

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad.mjɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

cadmium m (uncountable)

1. cadmium

Further reading

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

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Latin

Chemical element
Cd
Previous: argentum (Ag)
Next: indium (In)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.um/, [ˈkäd̪miʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.um/, [ˈkäd̪mium]

Noun

cadmium n (genitive cadmiī); second declension

1. cadmium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cadmium	cadmia
Genitive	cadmiī	cadmiōrum
Dative	cadmiō	cadmiīs
Accusative	cadmium	cadmia
Ablative	cadmiō	cadmiīs
Vocative	cadmium	cadmia