cadmium sulfide
noun
: a yellow-brown poisonous salt CdS used especially in electronic parts, in photoelectric cells, and in medicine
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While at Bell Laboratories, Brus experimented with nanoparticles of cadmium sulfide, intrigued by their ability to capture light and harness that energy to drive chemical reactions.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
In a statement to CNN, Army spokesperson Ellen Lovett said five examinations of the Army’s use of zinc cadmium sulfide in their aerosol dispersion tests have all shown the mist was non-toxic.
—Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
Brus repeated this effect a few years later, demonstrating the same change in color with quantum dots of cadmium sulfide, floating freely in a fluid instead of in glass.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
Under high-humidity conditions, the yellow cadmium sulfide pigment reacts with moisture in the environment to turn into cadmium sulfate, which is white.
—Stephanie Demarco, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2021
Their nanocrystals are hexagonal, platelike crystals of copper sulfide, with a border of cadmium sulfide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
Infrared excitation in the copper sulfide creates hot electrons and holes, which are injected into the cadmium sulfide and recombine to emit high-energy light in the visible region.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
By the 1840s, Cadmium Yellow, the pigment made of cadmium sulfide, was in artists’ hands.
—Stephanie Demarco, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2021
In the case of The Scream, yellow cadmium sulfide in the sunset has broken down into two white chemicals, cadmium sulfate and cadmium carbonate.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
In a statement to CNN, Army spokesperson Ellen Lovett said five examinations of the Army’s use of zinc cadmium sulfide in their aerosol dispersion tests have all shown the mist was non-toxic.
—Justin Gamble, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
Brus repeated this effect a few years later, demonstrating the same change in color with quantum dots of cadmium sulfide, floating freely in a fluid instead of in glass.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
Under high-humidity conditions, the yellow cadmium sulfide pigment reacts with moisture in the environment to turn into cadmium sulfate, which is white.
—Stephanie Demarco, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2021
Their nanocrystals are hexagonal, platelike crystals of copper sulfide, with a border of cadmium sulfide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
Infrared excitation in the copper sulfide creates hot electrons and holes, which are injected into the cadmium sulfide and recombine to emit high-energy light in the visible region.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
By the 1840s, Cadmium Yellow, the pigment made of cadmium sulfide, was in artists’ hands.
—Stephanie Demarco, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2021
In the case of The Scream, yellow cadmium sulfide in the sunset has broken down into two white chemicals, cadmium sulfate and cadmium carbonate.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
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“Cadmium sulfide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cadmium%20sulfide. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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