Cadmium Hydroxide, CdOH

Cadmous Hydroxide, CdOH, is produced as a greyish-white amorphous precipitate during the action of water on the compounds Cd₄Cl₇, Cd₄Br₇, or Cd₁₂I₂₃. It is a powerful reducing agent, dissolving in nitric acid with the formation of oxides of nitrogen and in other acids with the evolution of hydrogen. It ignites to yellow crystalline cadmium suboxide, Cd₂O.