Name :  Cadmium
Symbol :  Cd
Atomic Number :  48
Atomic Weight :  112.411
Specific Heat :  0.23 J/gK
Melting Point :  320.9°C
Vaporization :  99.570 kJ/mol
Boiling Point :  765°C
Electronegativity :  1.69
Density@293 K :  8.65 g/cm³
Discovered :  Fredrich Stromeyer, Germany, 1817
Description :  Soft, malleable, blue-white metal.
Uses :  Used in nickel-cadmium batteries. Also in electroplating steel and in the manufacture of berings. Its compounds are found in paint pigments and a wide variety of intense colors. Boiling cadmium gives off a weird, yellow-colored vapor that is poisonous.