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| cadmium it's Cd, mix it with nickle to make a rechargeable battery, it's mostly found with zinc, it's poison to humans doesnt that stink. |
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It is a soft metal. It can be cut with a knife that’s how soft it is. It is a white metal and it conducts electricity well because it’s a metal. It’s physical appearance is almost just like zinc just above it an the periodic table. |
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It is very dangerous to the human body. If it is eaten or gets into your blood stream it is very difficult to get out because it dissolves in water and most other liquids. It attacks the kidney, respiratory system and cause bone disease. |
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Cadmium can be mixed with nickel to make rechargeable batteries that are used every day. That’s its most practical use but Cadmium may be used as a coating on metals like iron or steel, where it makes a chemical resistant coating. People use cadmium salts are used in photography and in the making fireworks, rubber, fluorescent paints and glass. Cadmium has been used as a control or shielding material in atomic energy plants because it can absorbent low-energy neutrons very well. Cadmium lowers the melting point of all the metals that it gets alloyed with. It is mixed with lead, tin, and bismuth to make an automatic sprinkler systems, fire alarms, and electric fuses. |
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| alloyed | A homogeneous mixture or solid solution of two or more metals, the atoms of one replacing or occupying interstitial positions between the atoms of the other |
| toxic | of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison |
| impurity | when an element does not consists of only one element but a few elements chemicaly combind |
| extracted | To obtain from a substance by chemical or mechanical action, as by pressure, distillation, or evaporation. |
| respiratory system | the system by which oxygen is taken into the body and an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place |
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