Sunlight Promotes Fast Release of Hazardous Cadmium from Widely-Used Commercial Cadmium Pigment.

Sunlight Promotes Fast Release of Hazardous Cadmium from Widely-Used Commercial Cadmium Pigment.

Environmental science & technology (2017-05-17)

Huiting Liu, Han Gao, Mingce Long, Heyun Fu, Pedro J J Alvarez, Qilin Li, Shourong Zheng, Xiaolei Qu, Dongqiang Zhu

摘要

Cadmium pigments are widely used in the polymer and ceramic industry. Their potential environmental risk is under debate, being the major barrier for appropriate regulation. We show that 83.0 ± 0.2% of hazardous cadmium ion (Cd