Definition of Cadmiums

1. cadmium [n] - See also: cadmium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cadmiums

cadmiferous
cadmium
cadmium cell
cadmium chloride
cadmium compounds
cadmium orange
cadmium oxide
cadmium poisoning
cadmium radioisotopes
cadmium sulfide
cadmium sulphide
cadmium translocating ATPase
cadmium yellow
cadmium yellow pale
cadmium yellows
cadmiums (current term)
cadmoindite
cadmoselite
cadr
cadralazine
cadrans
cadranses
cadre
cadre parties
cadre party
cadres
cads
caduac
caduacs
caduca

Literary usage of Cadmiums

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemistry of Paints and Painting by Arthur Herbert Church (1890)
"The beautiful pale and lemon cadmiums in the market derive ... Indeed, so bad a name have the pale cadmiums for stability, that they are now fallen into ..."

2. Landscape Painting by Birge Harisson (1909)
"The rule, then, is either to content ourselves with zinc white, or, if white lead is used, to cast aside the cadmiums, vermilion, and emerald green (which, ..."

3. American Painters: With One Hundred and Four Examples of Their Work Engraved by George William Sheldon (1880)
"Then he sets his palette, beginning at the right, with the following pigments, in the order now given : vermilion, the cadmiums, Naples yellow, yellow ochre ..."

4. Water Color Painting by Grace Barton Allen (1898)
"It is also a desirable color to wash over the sun itself,, when that orb is visible, and may be employed alone, or with the cadmiums. The cadmiums, because ..."

5. The Amateur Artist by Frances George Delamotte (1906)
"The rest of the bright tints of the daffodil can be imitated with the deeper cadmiums, which are all permanent when well prepared. ..."

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