How to Use cadmium in a Sentence

cadmium

noun

• Five of the bars were above those levels for both cadmium and lead.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2022
• Both lead and cadmium cause long-term damage to the body.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 16 Sep. 2023
• Lead was found in at least one sample of each mug, arsenic in all of them, and in a few, cadmium.
  — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 28 Sep. 2011
• Five of the bars tested above those levels for both cadmium and lead.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Our results: None of the test mugs leached lead, cadmium, or arsenic.
  — The Good Housekeeping Institute, Good Housekeeping, 28 Sep. 2011
• But hazardous amounts of lead, mercury, cyanide, and cadmium remained in the ground.
  — David Gelles Erin Schaff, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• The products were tested to see whether the heavy metals lead, cadmium or arsenic were in them.
  — Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 31 July 2024
• Although lead and cadmium were found in all of the dark chocolates tested, five had safe levels of the heavy metals.
  — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• In the 1990s, lithium-ion came on the scene and started displacing cadmium.
  — Tamara Chuang, The Denver Post, 18 June 2017
• The bacteria self-replicate, so all that's required is a giant tank of water and cadmium to be placed in the sun.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2017
• The study found 95% of the food tested contained lead, arsenic, mercury or cadmium.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
• The emissions, said Miller, consist of lead, cadmium, and mercury.
  — National Geographic, 21 Feb. 2018
• Police found quicksilver, lead and cadmium in the man's home.
  — Darko Janjevic, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• Up to that time, the best rechargeable battery had been nickel cadmium, which put out a maximum of 1.3 volts.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
• The car's battery is not like a nickel cadmium battery where topping off is bad.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• The only problem when growing vegetables is that over time small amounts of zinc and cadmium can leach out from them.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2020
• The sun was completely hidden at first, and the sky was thick and toxic, like a mix of powdered cadmium and cirrhosis.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• Montezuma’s and Ghirardelli were also on the list as chocolate bars with the least cadmium, along with ChocZero and Lily’s 70%.
  — Joe and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2023
• As natural elements, heavy metals such as lead and cadmium are in the soil in which crops are grown and thus can’t be avoided.
  — Parija Kavilanz and Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• Humans can get exposed to cadmium by ingesting crops that have taken up the metal from the soil.
  — Natasha Gilbert, Science | AAAS, 10 Apr. 2018
• ConnPIRG found levels of boron, lead and cadmium far beyond the legal limits in a number of toys.
  — Amanda Blanco, courant.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• The analysis looked at emissions of the toxic heavy metals chromium, nickel and cadmium for the year 2017.
  — Lylla Younes, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2021
• In one of the donors nodes, cadmium and mercury, both highly toxic, were detected.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
• The greater the average amount of the heavy metals antimony and cadmium in the hatchlings’ liver, the greater the bias towards females within the nest, the researchers said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• Out of the 28 popular brands of dark chocolate the researchers examined, 23 contained more cadmium and/or lead than what an adult should eat in one day.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
• In fact, the study found that organic cocoa products were even more likely to have higher levels of lead and cadmium.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 31 July 2024
• The heavy toxic metals found in the baby food include lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium.
  — Ayano Nagaishi, azcentral, 17 Oct. 2019
• Like most of the best rechargeable batteries, these are made without mercury, cadmium, or lead.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2023
• The presence of lead and cadmium in food is partly due to the fact they're naturally found in the environment, the report stated.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 10 Apr. 2024
• But cadmium is only in a tiny share of panels on the market, and the solar industry uses a form of cadmium that is safer than the form that fuels the scare stories.
  — Dan Gearino, WIRED, 29 June 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024