Historical Examples. 1  I remembered the helpless kid that Paralus confided to my care.  2 But you went to Athens, and took no care for your country, rejoined the prince. 3  Being under his care, it was his duty to keep it in good condition. 4  Your brother was foolish enough to leave his boat in Rushton's care.
Cadmium. Cadmium is a lustrous, silver-white, ductile, very malleable metal. Its surface has a bluish tinge and the metal is soft enough to be cut with a knife, but it tarnishes in air. It is soluble in acids but not in alkalis.
This soft, bluish-white metal is chemically similar to the two other stable metals in group 12, zinc and mercury. Like zinc, it prefers oxidation state +2 in most of its compounds and like mercury it shows a low melting point compared to transition metals.admium and its congeners are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have partly filled d or f electron shells in the elemental or common oxidation states. The average concentration of cadmium in Earth's crust is between 0.1 and 0.5 parts per million (ppm).