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greenockite's Usage Examples:

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Cadmium sulphide, CdS, occurs naturally as greenockite (q.v.), and can be artificially prepared by passing sulphuretted hydrogen through acid solutions of soluble cadmium salts, when it is precipitated as a pale yellow amorphous solid.

Cadmium does not occur naturally in the uncombined condition, and only one mineral is known which contains it in any appreciable quantity, namely, greenockite, or cadmium sulphide, found at Greenock and at Bishopton in Scotland, and in Bohemia and Pennsylvania.

greenockite's Meaning':

ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form

Synonyms:

mineral, cadmium sulphide,

Antonyms:

organic,