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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

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.

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

GREENOCKITE, a rare mineral composed of cadmium sulphide, CdS, occurring as small, brilliant, honey-yellow crystals or as a canary-yellow powder.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

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