Cadmium

Definition: Cadmium

Cadmium

Noun

1. A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores.

Etymology: Cadmium \Cad"mi*um\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Cadmia.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Cadmium

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	A chemical element that belongs to the heavy metals. Source: European Union. (references)
Environment	A heavy metal that accumulates in the environment. (Cd). (references)
Health	An element with atomic symbol Cd, atomic number 48, and atomic weight 114. It is a metal and ingestion will lead to cadmium poisoning. (references)
Mining	A soft, bluish-white metal, similar in many respects to zinc, copper, and lead ores. Almost all cadmium is obtained as a byproduct in the treatment of these ores. Symbol, Cd. Used in electroplating, in solder, for batteries, as a barrier to control atomic fission, and in TV tubes. Cadmium and solutions of its compounds are toxic. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Cadmium

Synonym: atomic number 48 (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cadmium

English words defined with "cadmium": Cadmic, cadmium cell, cadmium orange, cadmium sulfide, cadmium sulphide, cadmium yellow, cadmium yellow pale ♦ fusible metal ♦ green gold, greenockite ♦ nicad, nickel-cadmium accumulator ♦ zinc cadmium sulfide. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cadmium": alkaline-manganese batteries ♦ cadmium blend, CADMIUM BURNER, cadmium columbate, Cadmium Compounds, cadmium emphysema, Cadmium Poisoning, Cadmium Radioisotopes, CADMIUM-LIQUOR MAKER, cadmium-nephropathy, cadmium-plated, chemical pneumonia ♦ Diphenylcarbazide ♦ emphysema caused by cadmium ♦ false galena, fume fever, furnace cadmium ♦ liquor maker ♦ mock ore,mock lead ♦ Photovoltaic Device, prime western zinc, pseudogalena ♦ RECLAMATION KETTLE TENDER, METAL ♦ steel jack ♦ toxic dusts, transition metals ♦ weston normal cell, wet-plant operator ♦ xanthochroite. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cadmium" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (cadmium), French (cadmium), German (cadmium), Portuguese (cadmium).

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Commercial Usage: Cadmium

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Pigments and Preparations Based on Cadmium Compound: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Interactions between cadmium and calcite (reference) Mercury, Cadmium, Lead: Handbook for Sustainable Heavy Metals Policy and Regulation (Environment & Policy, V. 31) (reference) Copper, Silver, Gold & Zinc, Cadmium, Mercury Oxides & Hydroxides (reference) Mercury Cadmium Telluride Imagers (reference) Physics and Chemistry of Mercury Cadmium Telluride and Novel Ir Detector Materials: San Francisco, Ca 1990 (Conference Proceedings, No. 235) (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Energizer ER-P275 Nickel Cadmium Cordless Phone Battery (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Cadmium

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The 1991 Batteries and Accumulators Directive (91/157/EEC) applies only to primary and secondary batteries containing lead, mercury or cadmium (less than 10% of all batteries sold). (references)
		The groups are oil waste, solvent waste, paint and varnish waste, glue waste, acid and alkaline waste, waste containing cadmium, waste containing mercury, waste containing heavy metals, waste containing cyanide, waste containing PCBs, pesticide waste and laboratory waste. (references)
Economic History	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan is also a large producer of beryllium, tantalum, barite, uranium, cadmium, and arsenic. (references)
	Uzbekistan	In addition to these minerals, Uzbekistan produces natural gas, silver, zinc, wolfram, lead, sulfuric acid, feldspar, cadmium, molybdenum concentrate, kaolin, and others. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cadmium

"Cadmium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cadmium" is used about 121 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	121	29,211

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Cadmium

Expressions using "cadmium": cadmium blende ♦ cadmium cell ♦ Cadmium Chloride ♦ Cadmium Compounds ♦ cadmium emphysema ♦ cadmium ocher ♦ cadmium orange ♦ Cadmium Poisoning ♦ Cadmium Radioisotopes ♦ cadmium sulfide ♦ cadmium sulphide ♦ Cadmium yellow ♦ cadmium yellow pale ♦ emphysema caused by cadmium ♦ zinc cadmium sulfide. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "cadmium": cadmium-cell, cadmium-containing, cadmium-nephropathy, cadmium-plate, cadmium-plated, cadmium-sulphide.
	Ending with "cadmium": nickel-cadmium.
	Containing "cadmium": nickel-cadmium accumulator.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cadmium

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cadmium	105
cadmium plating	23
nickel cadmium	22
cadmium poisoning	9
cadmium oxide	7
cadmium toxicity	6
cadmium nitrate	5
lead cadmium	5
cadmium removal soil	4
barium cadmium	4
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Modern Translations: Cadmium

Language		Translations for "cadmium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kadmium. (various references)

Arabic		‏الكادميوم عنصر فلزي. (various references)

Bulgarian		кадмий. (various references)

Chinese		鎘 (scabbard, sheath), 镉. (various references)

Czech		kadmium. (various references)

Danish		cadmium. (various references)

Dutch		cadmium. (various references)

Esperanto		kadmio. (various references)

Finnish		kadmiumin aiheuttama munuaissairaus (cadmium-nephropathy), kadmiumaalto (cadmium wave), greenockiitti (cadmium blende, cadmium ocher, greenockite, xanthochroite). (various references)

French		cadmium. (various references)

German		kadmium, cadmium. (various references)

Greek		κάδμιο. (various references)

Hungarian		kadmium. (various references)

Italian		cadmio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		カトリック教会 (Catholic Church, cattleya). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		カドミウ� . (various references)

Korean		카�"�뮴. (various references)

Pig Latin		admiumcay.(various references)

Portuguese		cádmio. (various references)

Russian		кадмий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kadmium. (various references)

Spanish		cadmio. (various references)

Swedish		kadmium. (various references)

Thai		แค�"เมียม. (various references)

Turkish		kadmiyum. (various references)

Ukranian		кадмій. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cadmium

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cadmium": cadmiums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cadmium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cadima, cadium, cadmeium, cadmiam, cadmirum, Cadnam, cadomian, candidum, cidium. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cadmium"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cadmium" (pronounced ka"dmēum)
4	-m ē u m	chromium, fermium, holmium, osmium, premium, superpremium.
3	-ē u m	alluvium, ammonium, aquarium, atrium, auditorium, axiom, bacterium, barium, beryllium, calcium, cesium, colloquium, compendium, condominium, consortium, crematorium, delirium, deuterium, disequilibrium, emporium, equilibrium, europium, gallium, geranium, gonium, gymnasium, hafnium, harmonium, helium, Herbarium, honorarium, idiom, indium, iridium, lawrencium, linoleum, lithium, magnesium, medium, millennium, minium, moratorium, myocardium, nephridium, neptunium, niobium, nobelium, opium, opprobrium, palladium, pandemonium, paramecium, petroleum, planetarium, Plasmodium, plutonium, podium, polonium, potassium, presidium, promethium, protium, psyllium, radium, requiem, rhodium, selenium, sodium, stadium, strontium, symposium, tedium, tellurium, thallium, thorium, titanium, tritium, uranium, vanadium, yttrium, zirconium.
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Anagrams: Cadmium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-m-m-u"
	-2 letters: imaum, mucid, umiac.
	-3 letters: acid, amid, cadi, caid, duci, duma, imam, maid, maim, maud, mica.
	-4 letters: aid, aim, ami, amu, cad, cam, cud, cum, dam, dim, dui, mac, mad, mid, mim, mud, mum, umm.
	-5 letters: ad, ai, am, id, ma, mi, mm, mu, um.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-m-m-u"
	+1 letter: cadmiums.
	+3 letters: miracidium, myocardium.
	+5 letters: communalized, communicated.
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