Containing or bearing cadmium or cadmia; producing or yielding cadmium.
From Latin cadmia + -ferous (from ferre, meaning 'to carry' or 'to bear'). The suffix -ferous is common in geology and mineralogy to describe ore-bearing rocks.
Geologists use this term to identify which rocks are worth mining for cadmium—it's like a treasure map written in scientific language!
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