Atomic Weight of Cadmium | Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights

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It decays into the minor isotope of In, but abnormal occurrences of that element with anomalous <i>A</i><sub>r</sub>(In) from the decay of <sup>113</sup>Cd have not been reported. </p> <h9><font color=red>SOURCE</font>  <a href="publications.htm#P3">Atomic weights of the elements: Review 2000</a> by John R de Laeter et al. <i>Pure Appl. Chem.</i> 2003 (75) 683-800<br>© IUPAC 2003</h9> </div>  <div id="support-content"> <img src="images/p-table/Cd.png"><p class="credit">CIAAW</p> <p class="caption"><strong>Cadmium</strong><br> <i>A</i><sub>r</sub>(Cd) = 112.414(4) since 2013<br><br> The name derives from Greek <i>kadmeia</i> for "calamine" (zinc carbonate), with which it was found as an impurity in nature. It may have been found in furnace flue dust in Thebes, a city in the Boeottia region of central Greece. The mythological king of Phoenicia, Cadmus, founded Thebes and would be a source for the name of the ore. The element was discovered and first isolated by German physician Friedrich Stromeyer in 1817. <br> <p class="caption"><a href="cadmium-references.htm">Isotopic reference materials</a> of cadmium.</p> </div id="support-content">  </div id="content">  <div id="push"></div></div id="pagewidth">  <div id="footer"> <img src="images/logo.png"><br><br> <a href="privacy.htm">Privacy policy</a>  |  <a href="impressum.htm">Impressum</a>  |  <a href="members.htm">Contact</a>  |  © CIAAW, 2007-2015 <br> </div>  </body></html>

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