cadmium yellow
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- noun
- /ˈkædmiəm ˈjɛloʊ/
- Specialized
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amarillo cadmio
- The artist chose cadmium yellow to create vibrant sunflowers in her painting.
- cadmium yellow light
- cadmium yellow medium
- cadmium yellow deep
Examples
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And so I decided to pick up three more colors, Dark cadmium red, middle cadmium yellow, and Prussian blue.
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"Okay, I tried with my cadmium yellow n4 (check on the link I sent, it's the labeled n3:
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Al Azarian Crimson, titanium white, ultramarine blue, phthalo blue, cadmium yellow light, the colors aren't exactly the same.
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Many painters prefer cadmium yellow for its bright and opaque quality.
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Mixing cadmium yellow with other colors can yield a wide range of vibrant shades.
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term combines 'cadmium' (the metal / pigment source) with 'yellow' (a color), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes the yellow pigment made from cadmium compounds. This material+color naming pattern is compositional and cross-linguistically common, making the meaning directly recoverable from the parts.
Etymology
Cadmium yellow gets its name from the metal cadmium. In the 1800s artists used a bright, lasting yellow made from that metal, so the name now means a strong, vivid 'yellow' used in painting.