cadmium sulphide

noun

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

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In early 20th-century paint production, cadmium sulphide was produced at times through a reaction between cadmium chloride and sodium sulfide.

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"We are now looking for more benign light absorbers than cadmium sulphide to provide bacteria with energy from light."

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

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These coatings have probably been formed by the decomposition of cadmium-bearing zinc sulphide in the oxide zone, the carrying down of the cadmium in solution, and its precipitation as secondary cadmium sulphide.

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He has frequently found it, he says, in the dark-coloured varieties, and considers the variations of colour in cadmium sulphide to be owing to traces of thallium.

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