cadmium

See also: Cadmium

Contents

EnglishEdit

Chemical element
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Cadmium.

EtymologyEdit

(1817) From Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía) (calamine), a Cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the god, Κάδμος (Kádmos) (Cadmus)

NounEdit

cadmium (countable and uncountable, plural cadmiums)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived termsEdit

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 termsEdit

Related terms

• cadmia
• Cadmean, Cadmian

• cadmy

TranslationsEdit

chemical element

• Afrikaans: kadmium
• Albanian: kadmium (sq)
• Arabic: كَادْمِيُوم‏‎ m (kadmiyum)
• Armenian: կադմիում (hy) (kadmium)
• Asturian: cadmiu m
• Basque: kadmioa
• Belarusian: ка́дмій m (kádmij)
• Breton: kadmiom
• Bulgarian: ка́дмий m (kádmij)
• Catalan: cadmi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎘 (zh), 镉 (zh) (gé)

• Cornish: cadmyum
• Czech: kadmium (cs)
• 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) (kádmiyum)
• Hindi: मृज्यातु (mrujyaatu)
• Hungarian: kadmium (hu)
• Icelandic: kadmín (is)
• Interlingua: cadmium
• Irish: caidmiam (ga)
• Italian: cadmio (it) m
• Japanese: カドミウム (ja) (kadomiumu)
• Kashubian: kadm
• Kazakh: кадмий (kk) (kadmïy)

• 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

• Persian: کادمیوم‏‎ (fa) (kâdmiyom)
• Polish: kadm (pl) m
• Portuguese: cádmio (pt) m
• Romanian: cadmiu (ro) n
• Russian: ка́дмий (ru) m (kádmij)
• Scottish Gaelic: caidmiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кадмиjум m, кадмиj m

  Roman: kadmijum m, kadmij (sh) m

• Slovak: kadmium
• Slovene: kadmij (sl)
• Spanish: cadmio (es) m
• Swedish: kadmium (sv) n
• Tajik: кадмий (kadmiy)
• Tamil: கட்மியம் (kaṭmiyam)
• Thai: แคดเมียม (kɛ́t-mîiam)
• Turkish: kadmiyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: ка́дмій (uk) m (kádmij)
• Uzbek: кадмий (uz), kadmiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: catmi, cađimi
• Volapük: kadmin (vo)
• Welsh: cadmiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: cadmium

See alsoEdit

• greenockite
• itai-itai disease

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DanishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• kadmium

NounEdit

cadmium

1. cadmium

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DutchEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

cadmium n (uncountable)

1. cadmium

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kad.mjɔm/

NounEdit

cadmium m (uncountable)

1. cadmium

Further readingEdit

• “cadmium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

cadmium n (genitive cadmiī); second declension

1. cadmium

InflectionEdit

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cadmium	cadmia
genitive	cadmiī	cadmiōrum
dative	cadmiō	cadmiīs
accusative	cadmium	cadmia
ablative	cadmiō	cadmiīs
vocative	cadmium	cadmia