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Cadmium

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Inorganic Contaminants of Surface Water

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Abstract

Cadmium is the 64th most abundant element, occurring in the earth’s crust at an average concentration of 0.2 mg/kg. Cadmium is classified as a soft acid, preferentially complexing with sulfides, often as greenockite (a hexagonal crystalline form of cadmium sulfide), hawleyite (a cubic crystalline form of cadmium sulfide), sphalerite (zinc sulfide), and otavite (a mineralized form of calcium carbonate). Cadmium is of considerable environmental and health significance because of its increasing mobilization and toxicity to many life forms.

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Moore, J.W. (1991). Cadmium. In: Inorganic Contaminants of Surface Water. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3004-5_8

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