Last updated: 16 December 2009

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Exposure scenarios drafted

1. Cadmium oxide production
2. Uses
   a. Preparation of Cd dust, Cadmium Oxide and Nickel Hydroxide mixtures for battery applications
   b. Cadmium Oxide for the manufacturing of (industrial) Ni-Cd batteries
   c. Plating
    

Further identified uses

• Contact material
• Ni-Cd batteries
• Other Cd compounds (pigments)
• Photodiodes
• Phototransistors
• Photovoltaic cells
• Electroplating bath
• Catalyst
• Ceramic glaze
• Phosphors
• Cd-Ag oxide as depolarizer in Ag-Zn storage batteries
• Veterinary use (nematocide – vermicide - ascaricide)

If your use is not in the list, please contact us at e-mail to report it.

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: 0.4 Mb]
diagram (full screen) [size: 0.16 Mb]