Phosphate coating is less expensive than zinc or cadmium plating, especially when heavy deposits are required. Phosphate, like cadmium, adds lubricity.

Coatings and finished for metal hardware such as latches, fasteners, springs, and hinges include degreasing, deburring, passivation oil dip, zinc phosphate, cadmium plating, and black oxide.

Cadmium exposure is a known risk factor for prostate cancer, and a new study suggests that zinc may offer protection against cadmium. Zinc stimulates production of a protein that binds cadmium ...

Silver Zinc Frequently confused with silver cadmium, silver zinc is, of course, silver in appearance with a slight bluish tint, similar to silver spray paint.

But getting black zinc nickel parts to the point where they can outperform their cadmium equivalents has taken time. "In the early stages, the plating process wasn't as well defined as it is today," ...

Toxic metals like zinc, copper, cobalt, cadmium, uranium and tungsten found in daily environments can accumulate in the body and may worsen cardiovascular disease, a new study shows. People are ...

Cadmium exposure is a known risk factor for prostate cancer, and a new University of Rochester study suggests that zinc may offer protection against cadmium.

Acidifying cadmium-contaminated soil can help a plant called alpine pennycress to remove even more cadmium and zinc from contaminated soil, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and cooperating ...

How Do Zinc Whiskers Affect Today's Data Centers? Zinc whiskers were first discovered in 1948 by Bell Labs when a "whisker" on a zinc-plated bracket caused increased losses in quartz filters used in a ...

“Rinsate is a water solution from the plating process. They rinse off the objects they’ve plated and with it you have cadmium, chromium and zinc metals.” ...