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/pɐlˈeɪdiəm/
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[ US /pəˈɫeɪdiəm/ ]
[ US /pəˈɫeɪdiəm/ ]
NOUN
- a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
How To Use palladium In A Sentence
- The 516 samples were also examined for their base or precious metals potential, with 213 of the samples containing at least one gold grain and 31 samples containing one or more grains of sperrylite, a platinum-bearing mineral that is often associated with rocks containing significant amounts of platinum, palladium and nickel. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- The catalyst, which was first studied for use in catalytic converters in the early 1970s, includes the mineral perovskite with palladium.
- An outer cylinder of platinum was used as the anode, with a rod of palladium on its axis as the cathode.
- You can, with Kallitype, start with a noble metal, silver, which can be toned with the more noble metals gold, palladium and platinum, and through double or triple toning produce prints with split tones.
- Palladium is a relatively soft, silver-white metal that is both malleable and ductile.
- The connection is provided by utilizing a conductive adhesive wherein the conduction is provided by metal particles which have exposed palladium thereon.
- After several trials, the researchers determined that nickel catalysts, which share similar properties to palladium materials, allowed the α-ketoesters to add to nitroalkenes with high yields and purity; over 90% of the final product corresponded to a specific stereoisomer, a molecule with a hard-to-achieve, geometrically distinct structure. R&D Mag - News
- Palladium is a relatively soft, silver-white metal that is both malleable and ductile.
- [2] Palladium's strength and hardness come from its low temperature malleability or in other words its able to be worked cold, thus increasing it's strength. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- Neither palladium nor rhodium found much use in early 19th century science and Wollaston was unable to sell his store of the metals, although he attempted to discover applications for them.