Definitions for cadmium

cadmium cad·mi·um

Spelling: [kad-mee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈkæd mi əm/

Cadmium is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in cadmium (acdimmu).

Definitions for cadmium

noun

  1. a white, ductile divalent metallic element resembling tin, used in plating and in making certain alloys. Symbol: Cd; atomic weight: 112.41; atomic number: 48; specific gravity: 8.6 at 20°C.

Origin of cadmium

1815-25; New Latin, equivalent to Latin cadm(īa) calamine (orig. Cadmēa terra Greek Kadmeía gê Cadmean earth) + -ium -ium

Examples for cadmium

Thousands of pounds of cadmium are yearly wasted at the zinc works which might be easily collected in a similar manner.

By dissolving carbonate or oxide of cadmium in hydrochloric acid, and crystallising by gentle381 evaporation.

What cadmium Is: cadmium is a metal, just like iron, copper, or lead.

From sulphate or chloride of cadmium, and a solution of caustic alkali; observing to well wash and dry the precipitate.

The cadmium test may be used here to determine when the plates are charged.

There is only one oxide of cadmium, the brown above-mentioned.

When you are not using the cadmium, it should be put in a vessel of water and kept there.

Under this name chromate of cadmium was introduced some few years back.

In solution, the salt gives the reactions of iodine and cadmium.

With all the sulphides of cadmium a steel palette knife is best avoided.

Word Value for cadmium
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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