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Cadmium   /kˈædmiəm/   Listen
Cadmium

noun
1.
A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores.  Synonyms: atomic number 48, Cd.



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... her bustle, she lost her original air, and looked as might have done the Fornarina when not sitting in immortality. It was the battle of blonde tints: Olive with primroses and corn, May with a cadmium ...
— Muslin • George Moore
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... they had finished their sketch of the donkey, Caper proposed that they should oblige Margarita by giving the donkey a little of that painting the owner seemed so anxious to have bestowed on him. Dexter accordingly drew bright yellow circles of cadmium and yellow ochre round his eyes, giving him a peculiarly owly look; painted white rings round his tail, black streaks round his body, and touched the ends of his ears with vermilion. A more striking-looking object you never saw; and when Margarita proudly led him ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
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Words linked to "Cadmium" :   hemimorphite, metallic element, metal, calamine, cadmium sulphide


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