a pigment used in painting, consisting of cadmium sulfide and characterized by its strong yellowcolor and permanence
Word origin
[1870–75]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Victorian, billing, linkage, onshore, upgrade
Examples of 'cadmium yellow' in a sentence
cadmium yellow
Cadmium-yellow and lemon-yellow hepatopancreas tissues had the highest lipid concentrations.
Barbara E. Hasek, Darryl L. Felder 2006, 'Biochemical contents of the ovary and hepatopancreas of Uca longisignalisand Uca nr. minaxContenido bioquímico del ovario y hepatopáncreasde Uca longisignalis y Uca nr. minax', Scientia Marinahttp://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/98. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Being a wealthy artist, he seems to have favoured expensive pigments such as cobalt blue, viridian and cadmium yellow.
Marie Bitsch Christiansen, Elizabeth Baadsgaard, Jana Sanyova, Kim Pilkjær Simonsen 2017, 'The artists' materials of P. S. Krøyer: An analytical study of the artist's paintingsand tube colours by Raman, SEM–EDS and HPLC', Heritage Sciencehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-017-0153-2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)