cadmium yellow

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noun

a pigment used in painting, consisting of cadmium sulfide and characterized by its strong yellow color and permanence.

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Origin of cadmium yellow

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby cadmium yellow

cadmium orange, cadmium red, cadmium sulfate, cadmium sulfide, cadmium sulphide, cadmium yellow, Cadmus, Cadogan teapot, cadre, cadreman, caduceus

How to use cadmium yellow in a sentence

Sulphide of cadmium is used as a pigment (cadmium yellow); and the metal and some of its salts are useful reagents.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer
Cadmium yellow may easily be mistaken for chrome yellow, and crimson Lake for permanent crimson.
Illumination and its Development in the Present Day|Sidney Farnsworth
The color of the gills is orange to cadmium orange, or sometimes paler, cadmium yellow or deep chrome.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.|George Francis Atkinson
The older types of colouring matter—such as cadmium yellow, ochres, vermilion, umbers—have been superseded.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture|W. H. Simmons

Cadmium yellow is composed of cadmium and sulphur—white lead of lead and carbonic acid.
Field's Chromatography|George Field