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IIRC the author works in pharmaceuticals. I would be unsurprised to learn that cadmium is rarely used in the production of medications.


maybe not Cadmium.

Mercury is, though, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin - and on the "paints & coatings" side, orange-red and anti-rust often enough used mercury salts as well. Rarely these days, fortunately.

In some ways, it's nice GaN "won" for blue LEDs. CdTe / CdSe would literally have been "twice bad".




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