Cadmium - Periodic Table of Videos
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Cadmium? Yes Ok Oh yeah, that’s some! That is cool man! So cadmium is an element which is really quite similar to mercury and the way that most people have seen cadmium is that cadmium sulphide has a very strong orange colour and it is therefore used for dying things yellow or orange. If you look round your house or your parents’ house, you may easily find a cast iron pot which has, a cooking pot, which has nice orange sides and orange lid and this is using cadmium sulphide as a glaze. So this is a sample which was generated or which was used by some of our researchers in the School of Chemistry many years ago and this is a sample of cadmium metal. Now it’s very interesting because it is stored in this really quite nice box which was perhap...
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Cadmium? Yes Ok Oh yeah, that’s some! That is cool man! So cadmium is an element which is really quite similar to mercury and the way that most people have seen cadmium is that cadmium sulphide has a very strong orange colour and it is therefore used for dying things yellow or orange. If you look round your house or your parents’ house, you may easily find a cast iron pot which has, a cooking pot, which has nice orange sides and orange lid and this is using cadmium sulphide as a glaze. So this is a sample which was generated or which was used by some of our researchers in the School of Chemistry many years ago and this is a sample of cadmium metal. Now it’s very interesting because it is stored in this really quite nice box which was perhap...
