Cadmium
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Discovery
Cadmium was discovered by Friedrich Stromeyer in 1817 from an impurity in some samples of zinc carbonate, ZnCO
3
[6].
Origin of name
Latin "cadmia" and Greek "kadmeia" meaning calamine (zinc carbonate, ZnCO
3
) [6].