Cadmium

Cadmium uses and applications include: Bearing, low-melting, and brazing alloys; electrodeposited and dipped coatings on metals; pigment in paints, ceramic glazes, enamels; fire protection systems; nickel-cadmium storage batteries; power transmission wire; TV phosphors; control of atomic fission in nuclear reactors; fungicide; photography; lithography; selenium rectifiers; electrodes for cadmium-vapor lamps and photoelectric cells