cadmium sulphide

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   ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form

   Synonymsgreenockite

   Broadermineral

Questions about cadmium sulphide

What does cadmium sulphide mean?

cadmium sulphide means "ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form".

What is another word for cadmium sulphide?

Close synonyms include greenockite. 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 sulphide a common word?

cadmium sulphide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.