Toxic element used to produce various vivid pigments (7)

I believe the answer is:

cadmium

(Other definitions for cadmium that I've seen before include "Toxic metal used in plating" , "Silvery metal, Cd" , "Metallic element, Cd" , "Silvery-white metallic element" , "cell" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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