Laboratory reagent, coloring glass
Cadmium nitrate tetrahydrate is used in Photographic emulsions, coloring glass and porcelain, laboratory reagent, and the production of other cadmium compounds.
ChEBI: A hydrate that is the tetrahydrate form of cadmium nitrate.
Confirmed human
carcinogen. Poison by ingestion. A severe
skin and moderate eye irritant. Mutation
data reported. See also CADMIUM
COMPOUNDS, CADMIUM NITRATE,
and NITRATES. When heated to
decomposition it emits very toxic fumes of
Cd and NOx
Crystallise the nitrate from water (0.5mL/g) by cooling in ice-salt. [Gmelin’s Cadmium (8th edn) 33 pp 76-78 1925, Suppl p 446 1959.]
