Show NEW METAL MET At INDUSTRY Cadmium Possesses Re Remarkable Remarkable Properties It Is Related Washington Dec Is a anew ane new ne AmerIcan industry It is 15 the production of a metal w which possesses Properties UntIl recent l cadmium used in thIs country countr was imported from but ut now WJ w ware are producing so much of o It at home that we wc import ery little of It Cadmium melts at a low tempera temperature ture Litre and like bismuth lowers th the melting point o of alloys In which it Is used BIsmuth however forms brit brittle brittie tie tle allos but many alloys of cad are arc ductile and malleable yet hard hord The fhe melting points of these al ah alloys Joys loys are lower than the melting Points of an any of the metals composing them thion Several of them it at considerably below that thal of hulling water and a tr ck made of one of these compounds melts in a cup Cui of tea to the great of the th tea tead d drinker 11 n The chief source of cadmium Is zinc ore oro though sma small If thIs comparatively rare metal file ale con COlt in some lead ores |