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What is the charge of the cadmium cation

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In its compounds cadmium exhibits almost exclusively the +2 oxidation state, as in the colourless Cd2+ ion, which forms a number of stable complex ions, especially halide complexes.

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the charge of the cadmium cation is +2
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