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== Uses == | == Uses == | ||
[[File: | [[File:Cadmium Battery.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Batteries that use cadmium]] | ||
'''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> | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
[[File:Cadmium1.jpg|thumb|150px|left| | [[File:Cadmium1.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Cadmium ball with a penny for size comparison]] | ||
The word '''cadmium''' comes from the Latin word '''cadmia''' and the Greek word '''kadmeia''', which are words from the old languages used to describe calamine (zinc carbonite).<ref name=elemental>[http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele048.html Elements] Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility - Office of Science Education, It's Elemental, Accessed November 30th, 2010.</ref> | The word '''cadmium''' comes from the Latin word '''cadmia''' and the Greek word '''kadmeia''', which are words from the old languages used to describe calamine (zinc carbonite).<ref name=elemental>[http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele048.html Elements] Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility - Office of Science Education, It's Elemental, Accessed November 30th, 2010.</ref> | ||
