cadmium yellow

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   pigment of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate varying in hue from lemon yellow to orange

   Broaderpigment

   Narrowercadmium yellow palecadmium orange

Questions about cadmium yellow

What does cadmium yellow mean?

cadmium yellow means "pigment of cadmium sulfide and barium sulfate varying in hue from lemon yellow to orange".

Is cadmium yellow a common word?

cadmium yellow 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.