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cadmium sulphide

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noun

  1. an orange or yellow insoluble solid used as a pigment in paints, etc ( cadmium yellow ). Formula: CdS

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Efforts to replace cadmium sulphide with a buffer that contains no heavy metals must take into account the effect of conduction-band offset on device performance.

From Nature ● Aug. 15, 2012

Here an n-type semiconductor, such as cadmium sulphide, forms a depletion region when in contact with the p-type absorber.

From Nature ● Aug. 15, 2012

Heart of the system is an artificially grown crystal of cadmium sulphide, which acts as a sort of amplifier tube when excited by X radiation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Collect and weigh the precipitate as cadmium sulphide, as described under Cadmium.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

The tint of cadmium sulphide is a mere matter of manufacture, seeing that from the same sample of metal there can be obtained lemon-yellow, pale yellow, deep yellow, orange-yellow, and orange-red.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

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