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Home Chemistry Inorganic Compounds Cadmium Sulfide
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Cadmium Sulfide

Cadmium sulfide (CdS) is a yellow compound which is formed by introducing H2S into an alcalic cadmium salt solution. CdS is used by painters ("cadmium yellow") and in photo resistors (due to its photo-resistive effect).

Greenockite. Photo: Lou Perloff
CdS is found in nature as the mineral Greenockite, an hexagonal, orange crystal with specific gravity of 4.7 and Mohs hardness of 3.8.

Home Chemistry Inorganic Compounds Cadmium Sulfide

Last Update: 2004-11-27