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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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In early 20th-century paint production, cadmium sulphide was produced at times through a reaction between cadmium chloride and sodium sulfide.

"We are now looking for more benign light absorbers than cadmium sulphide to provide bacteria with energy from light."

From BBC

Here an n-type semiconductor, such as cadmium sulphide, forms a depletion region when in contact with the p-type absorber.

From Nature

These coatings have probably been formed by the decomposition of cadmium-bearing zinc sulphide in the oxide zone, the carrying down of the cadmium in solution, and its precipitation as secondary cadmium sulphide.

He has frequently found it, he says, in the dark-coloured varieties, and considers the variations of colour in cadmium sulphide to be owing to traces of thallium.

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