cadmium

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English

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Chemical element
Cd
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Cadmium.

Etymology

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1817, from Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía, calamine), a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the king Κάδμος (Kádmos, Cadmus).

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: kăd'mēəm, IPA(key): /ˈkædmiəm/
  • Hyphenation: cad‧mi‧um

Noun

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cadmium (countable and uncountable, plural cadmiums)

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  1. A chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48: a soft, silvery-white metal.
  2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

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Danish

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Noun

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cadmium

  1. cadmium

Dutch

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Chemical element
Cd
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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Cadmium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑt.mi.ʏm/
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  • Hyphenation: cad‧mi‧um

Noun

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cadmium n (uncountable)

  1. cadmium [from late 1810s]

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French

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cadmium m (uncountable)

  1. cadmium

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Latin

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Chemical element
Cd
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cadmium n (genitive cadmiī); second declension

  1. cadmium

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative cadmium cadmia
genitive cadmiī cadmiōrum
dative cadmiō cadmiīs
accusative cadmium cadmia
ablative cadmiō cadmiīs
vocative cadmium cadmia