Cadmium (231-152-8)
Last updated: 16 December 2009
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Exposure scenarios drafted
1. Cadmium production
a. electro-won metal
b. Distilled metal
2. Uses
a. Manufacture of powder/dust
3. Downstream use
a. DU of Cd-powder (231-151-2) and/or Cadmium Oxide (215-146-2) for the manufacturing of (industrial) Ni-Cd batteries
Further identified uses
- Production of alloys
- Soldering, brazing
- Batteries
- Chemicals (production of other cadmium compounds)
- Production of pigments
- Electroplating
- Mechanical plating
- Vacuum and ion deposition
- Surface pre-treatment
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This list will be completed with descriptors of use as soon as the updated guidance on use descriptor system will be published.
Documents
Document compiling all uses reported to the Consortium, according to ECHA guidance R.12 (V2, March 2010) [size: 0.39 Mb]

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