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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

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