Preferred term
cadmium
Definition
- [GEMET] One of the toxic heavy metal which has caused deaths and permanent illnesses in a series of major pollution incidents around the world. Cadmium has no useful biological purpose. However, it has wide industrial applications. It has been used for decades in metal plating to prevent corrosion, in rechargeable batteries and as a pigment in certain plastics and paints. Special care is taken in the industrial smelting of ores and subsequent handling of cadmium, because occupational exposure is known to have caused heart, chest and kidney disorders. Environmental health problems have come from exposure to various sources of pollution.
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Cd
Scope note
- US LTER controlled vocabulary
Creator
- herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at
In other languages
Arabic
- الكدميوم
Bulgarian
- Кадмий
Croatian
- kadmij
Czech
- kadmium
Danish
- cadmium
Dutch
- cadmium
Estonian
- kaadmium
Finnish
- kadmium
French
- cadmium
German
- Cadmium
Greek
- κάδμιο
Hungarian
- kadmium
Italian
- cadmio
Latvian
- kadmijs
Lithuanian
- kadmis
Norwegian
- kadmium
Polish
- kadm
Portuguese
- cádmio
Romanian
- cadmiu
Slovak
- kadmium
Slovenian
- kadmij
Spanish
- cadmio
Swedish
- kadmium
URI
http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20803