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== Uses == | == Uses == | ||
[[File:example.jpg|thumb|150px|left| | [[File:example.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Cadmium ball with a penny for size comparison]] | ||
'''Uses for Cadmium'''<br /> | '''Uses for Cadmium'''<br /> | ||
Cadmium was used as a leather tanning agent and a pigment in dye until the 1990's. It is still used in rechargeable Ni-Cd batteries, solar cells, solder alloys, some paint and plastic production, engraving, cadmium vapor lamps, some parasite treatment for farm animals, old television tubes and to electroplate other metals.<ref name=toxipedia>[http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Cadmium+(Cd) Toxicity] Unknown author, Toxipedia, Accessed December 1st, 2010.</ref> | Cadmium was used as a leather tanning agent and a pigment in dye until the 1990's. It is still used in rechargeable Ni-Cd batteries, solar cells, solder alloys, some paint and plastic production, engraving, cadmium vapor lamps, some parasite treatment for farm animals, old television tubes and to electroplate other metals.<ref name=toxipedia>[http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Cadmium+(Cd) Toxicity] Unknown author, Toxipedia, Accessed December 1st, 2010.</ref> | ||
