Greenockite

<h2 id="use">Use</h2>
<p>Greenockite, also known as "cadmium ochre", was used as a yellow pigment prior to cadmium being recognized as a <a href="/facts/Toxic/qa96rs60">toxic</a> element. The extracted cadmium has various industrial use, such as electrical nickel-cadmium (NiCd) <a href="/facts/Rechargeable_batteries/A6zUkPkW">rechargeable batteries</a>, <a href="/facts/Electroplating/HbKf0SBb">electroplating</a>, high temp alloys, plating steel and other metals that corrode easily, and use in control rods for some nuclear reactors.  
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<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051106000206/http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/sulfides/greenock/greenock.htm">Mineral galleries</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li> Media related to Greenockite at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Mindat <a href="http://www.mindat.org/min-1746.html" target="_blank">http://www.mindat.org/min-1746.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Glasgow museum site". Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2005-08-02. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120716222609/http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/John/huntmin/greenock.htm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120716222609/http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/John/huntmin/greenock.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Greenockite open-in-new

Greenockite