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Cadmium yellow
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Cadmium pigments.
Artists' paints
- Cadmium yellow is cadmium sulfide (CdS), C.I. Pigment Yellow 37.
- Cadmium sulfoselenide is a solid solution of CdS and cadmium selenide; depending on the sulfur-to-selenium ratio, C.I. Pigment Orange 20 or C.I. Pigment Red 108 is obtained.
- Zinc cadmium sulfide is a greenish, solid solution of CdS and zinc sulfide, C.I. Pigment Yellow 35.
- Cadmium yellow is sometimes mixed with viridian to give a vivid green mixture called cadmium green.