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Noun: cadmium  kad-mee-um
  1. A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
    - Cd, atomic number 48

Derived forms: cadmiums

Type of: metal, metallic element

Part of: calamine, hemimorphite

Encyclopedia: Cadmium

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