cadmium

What does cadmium mean?

cadmium means "a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores".

How many syllables are in cadmium?

cadmium has 3 syllables: cad-mi-um. The stress falls on "cad". In IPA it is /ˈkædmiəm/.

What is another word for cadmium?

Close synonyms include Cd, atomic number 48. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cadmium a common word?

cadmium is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cadmium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.