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Common card · Science
Cadmium sulfide, a Common card
Cadmium sulfide is the inorganic compound with the formula CdS.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 131
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 131 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Cadmium sulfide quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cadmium sulfide card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Cadmium sulfide is a ______ salt.
Answer
yellow. Cadmium sulfide is a yellow salt. From the Cadmium sulfide article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Haemophilia B. Haemophilia B 33,000 · Appropriate technology 21,000 · Cadmium sulfide 13,000 · Gallium scan 5,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Cadmium sulfide is a yellow salt.
- It occurs in nature with two different crystal structures as the rare minerals greenockite and hawleyite, but is more prevalent as an impurity substituent in the similarly structured zinc ores sphalerite and wurtzite, which are the major economic sources of cadmium.
- As a compound that is easy to isolate and purify, it is the principal source of cadmium for all commercial applications.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cadmium sulfide article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Cadmium sulfide
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cadmium sulfide (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : W. Oelen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
