镉与卡德摩斯

Cadmium and Cadmus

本文回顾了镉的发现简史，分析了镉在英语、德语、法语、日语、俄语、世界语、拉丁语、西班牙语中名称的来源，揭示了镉的命名语源与希腊神话中的腓尼基王子──卡德摩斯之间的关系．

The history of discovered cadmium is looked back, the origins of cadmium in English,German, French and Latin,in Japanese,in Russian, Kadmio in Esperanto and cadmio in Spanish are analysised. The relationship between cadmium and Cadmus, who is a phoeni cian prince in Greek mythology, is revealed.