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cadmium sulphide

noun

  1. an orange or yellow insoluble solid used as a pigment in paints, etc ( cadmium yellow ). Formula: CdS
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Cadmium occurs in nature as cadmium sulphide in greenockite, CdS, which is very rare.

Collect and weigh the precipitate as cadmium sulphide, as described under Cadmium.

The residue is cadmium sulphide, which contains 77.78 per cent.

The powder is yellow, but less pure than that of cadmium sulphide obtained by precipitation.

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