Cadmium and Gold are used for plating surfaces which gives them good corrosion resistance and sliding properties, Lead, Tin, Zinc alloys and various Bronze alloys are used as sliding bearings, or their powder can be used to lubricate sliding surfaces alone, or as additives to greases.

Cadmium plating is under scrutiny because of the environmental toxicity of the cadmium metal.

Cadmium plating is replaced with zinc or nickel.

Cadmium is created via the long s-process in low-medium mass stars with masses of 0. 6 to 10 solar masses, which lasts thousands of years.

Some " thin-film " solar cells have waste disposal issues when they are made with heavy metals such as Cadmium telluride ( CdTe ) and Copper indium gallium selenide ( CuInGaSe ), and need to be recycled, as opposed to silicon solar cells which are mostly non-metallic.

This abundant source of biomass is a known bioremediation hyperaccumulator of Mercury, Cadmium, Chromium and Lead, and as such can be used in phytoremediation.

Cadmium telluride ( CdTe ) thin-film PV modules in photovoltaic panels are explicitly allowed by RoHS to contain cadmium, even though cadmium is restricted in all other electronics.

An automatic exposure unit from an 8 mm video format | 8 mm movie camera, based on a galvanometer mechanism ( center ) and a Cadmium sulfide | CdS photoresistor in the opening at left.

An automatic light meter / exposure unit from an 8mm video format | 8 mm movie camera, based on a galvanometer mechanism ( center ) and a Cadmium sulfide | CdS photoresistor, in opening at left.

* Cadmium and zinc, using Alpine pennycress ( Thlaspi caerulescens ), a hyperaccumulator of these metals at levels that would be toxic to many plants.

* Helium Cadmium, Blue laser emission at 442 nm and Ultraviolet at 325 nm

Cadmium Zinc Telluride as a compound was found to be non-toxic at 5g / 1kg in an " Acute Oral Limit Toxicity Study " conducted by Toxikon

Cadmium levels are high in Finnish elk liver and kidneys, with the result that consumption of these organs from elk more than one year old is prohibited in Finland.

Cadmium yellow is cadmium sulfide ( CdS ); by adding increasing amounts of selenium, colors ranging from orange to nearly black ( the color of cadmium selenide ) can be produced.

USML-2 Experiments included: the Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment ( STDCE ), the Drop Physics Module, the Drop Dynamics Experiment ; the Science and Technology of Surface-Controlled Phenomena experiment ; the Geophysical Fluid Flow Cell Experiment ; the Crystal Growth Furnace, the Orbital Processing of High Quality Cadmium Zinc Telluride Compound Semiconductors experiment ; the Study of Dopant Segregation Behavior During the Crystal Growth of Gallium Arsenide ( GaAs ) in Microgravity experiment ; the Crystal Growth of Selected II-VI Semiconducting Alloys by Directional Solidification experiment ; the Vapor Transport Crystal Growth of Mercury Cadmium Tellurida in Microgravity experiment ; the Zeolite Crystal Growth Furnace ( ZCG ), the Interface Configuration Experiment ( ICE ), the Oscillatory Thermocapillary Flow Experiment ; the Fiber Supported Droplet Combustion Experiment ; the Particle Dispersion Experiment ; the Single-Locker Protein Crystal Growth experiment ; ( including the Protein Crystallization Apparatus for Microgravity ( PCAM ) and the Diffusion-controlled Crystallization Apparatus for Microgravity ( DCAM )); the Crystal Growth by Liquid-Liquid Diffusion, the Commercial Protein Crystal Growth experiment ; the Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility, Crystallization of Apocrystacyanin C experiment ; Crystal Structure Analysis of the Bacteriophage Lambda Lysozyme, Crystallization of RNA Molecules Under Microgravity Conditions experiment ; Crystallization of the Protein Grb2 and Triclinic Lysozyme experiment ; Microgravity Crystallization of Thermophilic Aspartyl-tRNA Synthetase and Thaumatin experiment ; Crystallization in a Microgravity Environment of CcdB experiment ; A Multivariate Analysis of X-ray Diffraction Data Obtained from Glutathione S Transferase experiment ; Protein Crystal Growth: Light-driven Charge Translocation Through Bacteriorhodopsin experiment ; Crystallization of Ribosome experiment ; Crystallization of Sulfolobus Solfataricus Alcohol Dehydrogenase experiment ; Crystallization of Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus, Tomato Aspermy Virus, Satellite Panicum Mosaic Virus, Canavalin, Beef Liver Catalase, Concanavalin B experiment ; Crystallization of the Epidermal Growth Factor ( EGF ); Structure of the Membrane-Embedded Protein Complex Photosystem I ; Crystallization of Visual Pigment Rhodopsin ; Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus ; Astroculture Facility and Experiment.

* Cadmium, using willow ( Salix viminalis ): In 1999, one research experiment performed by Maria Greger and Tommy Landberg suggested willow has a significant potential as a phytoextractor of Cadmium ( Cd ), Zinc ( Zn ), and Copper ( Cu ), as willow has some specific characteristics like high transport capacity of heavy metals from root to shoot and huge amount of biomass production ; can be used also for production of bio energy in the biomass energy power plant.

* Lund, Karen E. An Investigation of Cadmium and Lead from a High Arctic Waste Disposal Site, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.

Cadmium concentrations in healthy persons without excessive cadmium exposure are generally less than 1 μg / L in either blood or urine.

* a light sensitive resistor ( CdS cell / Cadmium cell )

• Cadmium, Mercury, Lead & Hexavalent Chromium ( beyond RoHS ) – including requirements for Mercury free products.

Cadmium ( ) is a chemical element with the symbol Cd and atomic number 48.

Cadmium has 8 known meta states, with the most stable being < sup > 113m </ sup > Cd ( t < sub > ½ </ sub >

Cadmium yellow is sometimes mixed with viridian to give a bright, pale green mixture called cadmium green.

Brilliantly colored, with good permanence and tinting power, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, and Cadmium Red are familiar artist colors, as well as being frequently employed as architectural paints, since they can add life and vibrancy to renderings.

Cadmium sulfide and a mixture of cadmium sulfide with cadmium selenide are commonly used as pigments in artists ' paints.

* I Send You This Cadmium Red: A Correspondence with John Christie ( with John Christie ) ( 2001 )

Because the pigment tends to oxidize and darken on exposure to air over time, and it contains lead, a toxic, heavy metal, it has been largely replaced by another pigment, Cadmium Yellow ( mixed with enough Cadmium Orange to produce a color equivalent to chrome yellow ).

The existing lighthouse is managed via the PSTN, and powered by Nickel Cadmium batteries, " charged on a time cycle of three times per week by one of two ( 12. 5 KVA ) markon alternators with TS3 Lister diesel engines.

Cadmium-113m is a Cadmium radioisotope and nuclear isomer with a halflife of 14. 1 years.

Cadmium, being a heavy metal, can cause substantial pollution when landfilled or incinerated.

Cadmium, present in some older silver solder alloys can, in extreme cases, cause loss of consciousness within a matter of minutes.

Cadmium intake has been found to be elevated amongst all consumers of elk meat, though the elk meat was found to contribute only slightly to the daily cadmium intake.

Cadmium in jewelry is not known to be dangerous if the items are simply worn, but concerns come when youngsters bite or suck on the jewelry, as many children do.

Cadmium is found in many of the above components, examples include plastic pigmentation, nickel-cadmium ( NiCd ) batteries and CdS photocells ( used in night lights ).

The story concerned three men, once friends sharing many adventures, who are now mayors of three cities — medieval Ackley, the futuristic Cadmium, and Petal Lake, a community reminiscent of the 1930s.

Godzilla has an allergic reaction to the Cadmium shells that are fired into his mouth by the Super X, and falls down unconscious.

Data and Lt. LaForge recognize that the crystal has photoelectric properties due to the presence of Cadmium and disable the lights to the medical lab.

( Cadmium is a known carcinogen as well as acutely toxic.

Cadmium and its congeners are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have partly filled d or f electron shells in the elemental or common oxidation states.

Cadmium occurs as a minor component in most zinc ores and therefore is a byproduct of zinc production.

Cadmium is a soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white divalent metal.

Cadmium and its congeners are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have partly filled d or f electron shells in the elemental or common oxidation states.

Cadmium burns in air to form brown amorphous cadmium oxide ( CdO ); the crystalline form of this compound is a dark red which changes color when heated, similar to zinc oxide.

Cadmium ( Latin cadmia, Greek καδμεία meaning " calamine ", a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the Greek mythological character, Κάδμος Cadmus, the founder of Thebes ) was discovered simultaneously in 1817 by Friedrich Stromeyer and Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann, both in Germany, as an impurity in zinc carbonate.

* Ellis, G. B., Mandel, H., and Linden, D. " Sintered Plate Nickel – Cadmium Batteries ".

A standardization in terms of the wavelength of the red line of the emission spectrum of Cadmium is also given, which if the 1927 definition of the Angstrom is taken for the value of that wavelength, would equal 2. 263347539605392 mm.

Sky released their sixth album Cadmium in December 1983.

Cadmium and other restricted heavy metals used in conventional quantum dots is of a major concern in commercial applications.

Cadmium pigments are a class of pigments that have cadmium as one of the chemical components.