Palladium is a chemical element with the symbol Pd and atomic number 46.
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24 Facts About Palladium
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Palladium named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas.
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Palladium is used in electronics, dentistry, medicine, hydrogen purification, chemical applications, groundwater treatment, and jewelry.
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Palladium is a key component of fuel cells, in which hydrogen and oxygen react to produce electricity, heat, and water.
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Palladium has the appearance of a soft silver-white metal that resembles platinum.
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Palladium chloride is the principal starting material for other palladium compounds.
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Palladium can be found as a free metal alloyed with gold and other platinum-group metals in placer deposits of the Ural Mountains, Australia, Ethiopia, North and South America.
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Palladium is found in the rare minerals cooperite and polarite.
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Palladium is produced in nuclear fission reactors and can be extracted from spent nuclear fuel, though this source for palladium is not used.
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Palladium is used in jewelry, dentistry, watch making, blood sugar test strips, aircraft spark plugs, surgical instruments, and electrical contacts.
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Palladium is one of only four metals to have such codes, the others being gold, silver and platinum.
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Palladium is essential to the Lindlar catalyst, called Lindlar's Palladium.
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Palladium is a versatile metal for homogeneous catalysis, used in combination with a broad variety of ligands for highly selective chemical transformations.
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Palladium catalysis is primarily employed in organic chemistry and industrial applications, although its use is growing as a tool for synthetic biology; in 2017, effective in vivo catalytic activity of palladium nanoparticles was demonstrated in mammals to treat disease.
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Palladium is or can be used for component and connector plating in consumer electronics and in soldering materials.
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Palladium has been used as a precious metal in jewelry since 1939 as an alternative to platinum in the alloys called "white gold", where the naturally white color of palladium does not require rhodium plating.
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Palladium is one of the three most popular alloying metals in white gold .
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Palladium-gold is more expensive than nickel-gold, but seldom causes allergic reactions .
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Palladium was little used in jewelry because of the technical difficulty of casting.
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Palladium'saffer has used palladium plating for decades, either as an accent on otherwise gold nibs or covering the gold completely.
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Palladium is used by the luxury brand Hermes as one of the metals plating the hardware on their handbags, most famous of which being the highly sought after Birkin.
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Palladium disclosed that he was the discoverer of palladium in a publication in 1805.
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Palladium chloride was at one time prescribed as a tuberculosis treatment at the rate of 0.
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ETFS Physical Palladium Shares is an ETF traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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