Quote:

Feeling like sunshine! That could probably kill you...

Status update:

9 year anniversary since I got banned from Europe... I'm not that poisonous, am I?   10-9-13

Don't you love being a quarter of a circle in the top right corner of a masterpiece? Because I sure do!   10-10-13

Silver and I are going to go get 'soldered' up! Those Aluminum tubes just won't stick together, so they called us in!   10-11-13

I think Telluride and I make the perfect couple. People need us to be together for Infrared lenses and Solar Cells, but I think that that's not the only reason we're together. <3   10/29/13

I love chemical equations! It's like being on a seesaw, and the solver gets to do trial and error, like pushing me up and down on the seesaw. It's actually really easy, once you get the hang of it. Being an element, I've seen tons of people struggling, but it's all worth it, because you get the answer in the end!    10/29/13

Overview:

I am Cadmium, a poisonous metal that is the byproduct of refining Zinc. I am solid at room temperature, but my melting point is 610°F. My atomic number is 48 and my atomic mass is 112.411 amu. I was mostly used as yellow and red pigment for paint, until people found out I was very poisonous. Then, they started using me for batteries with my good old friend, Nickel and even fertilizer! Now, I'm simply another old element of the Periodic Table. 

Information: 

Relationship Status: 

Primary Relationship: 

network: 

valence electrons:

2

Birthday: 

Hometown: 

Movies: 

Activities & Interests:

I love to participate in nuclear fission, especially to help be the barrier that has to control those random fun neutrons! I love that job, even though the neutrons tickle a little. I also like to conduct electricity with Nickel, but being in those batteries can be boring, yet I still think it's alright if Nickel is with me. And finally, I saved the best for last: being in paint! All the painters loved me because I made the most brightest yellows, reds and oranges for them. They even said I lasted long too! I am also found in tobacco in cigarettes and can accumulate in people's bodies. Humans even let me be in fertilizer, but I don't get it, I thought they didn't want me to poison them. 

Places:

I visit my home in Siberia a lot, even though people think rivers aren't the best homes for metals like me, I don't mind, because being at the basin of Vilyuy River is great. When I think about it, I'm actually pretty rare compared to Zinc, Lead and Copper. I live at about 0.1 ppm (parts per million) in the Earth's crust. Almost all the time I'm combined with some of my friends from the Periodic Table, mostly Zinc. Only humans can purify me, and you can never find my pure form out in the wild.    10-10-13  Also, people say I could be found in Germany where Hermann and Stromeyer found me.    10-11-13

Check in: CdS + H2SO4 --> CdSO4 + H2S 

Photos:     

Create 2 photo albums:

• atom and bonding diagrams - these will be done in class and will take time
• fun images - pictures that contain the element

 - every photo must have a caption 

- tag other elements in the pictures

 Atom and Bonding Diagrams

Bohr

P+48

N=64

E=48

Electron Dot

One additional diagram

 Me and my friends - Around the World

A pure piece of me,

naturally in that shape. About 1 cm in length. With lighting, because I do not glow. 

Granulated form of

Cadmium Sulfide.

Me with Sulfur in a yellow-orange hue like for pigment.

2 cm long pieces of oxidized cadmium, creating Cadmium

Monoxide on the outside.

Together in the picture are Oxygen and me! 

Cadmium Sulfide in

Greenockite form (Crystalline

solid form). This picture has Me and Sulfur in it. 

High purity of me. I look like a crystal, don't I?  

Groups:

Group 12

Volatile metals

Zinc Group

Resources:

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium
Wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cadmium-crystal_bar-1.jpg 

"Cadmium." Chemicool Periodic Table. 10/10/2013 <http://www.chemicool.com/elements/cadmium.html>.

Institute, M. (2013). Cadmium. Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/150844

Wisconsin Department of Health Services from http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/eh/chemfs/fs/cadmium.htm

Theodore Gray: www.theodoregray.com/periodictable

Topology of Electron Density of Cadmium Telluride Determined from Relief and Contour Plots: http://www.ukm.my/jsm/pdf_files/SM-PDF-42-7-2013/10%20A.P.%20Othman.pdf

Friends:    

               Mercury

              Zinc