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Definition of Rhodium

1. Noun. A white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum.

Definition of Rhodium

1. n. A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.

Definition of Rhodium

1. a metallic element [n -S] : RHODIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Rhodium

1. A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. "rodon the rose. So called from the rose-red colour of certain of its solutions. See Rhododendron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Rhodium

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1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"If rhodium is present fuse with KHSO, as described under rhodium. The solution of Ru^C'U is evaporated to drive off the excess acid and then taken up with ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"A very small amount of rhodium will color the filtrate pink to a rose-red color, depending on the amount of rhodium present. Separation of rhodium from ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"rhodium blick is obtained by reducing rhodium salts with formic acid; by alcohol in the presence of alkali; or by precipitation with zinc and iron, ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1873)
"rhodium is a white, very hard metal; when quite pure, it is malleable after fusion upon lime, and it then has asp. gr. of 12'1. It requires a .stronger heat ..."

5. Chemistry by William Thomas Brande, Alfred Swaine Taylor (1863)
"SALTS OF rhodium. metallic palladium. Cyanide of mercury forms a precipitate in all the salts of palladium, when the acid is not in excess. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"rhodium black is obtained by reducing rhodium salts with formic acid; ... rhodium salts may be recognized by their characteristic reaction with freshly ..."

7. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"rhodium possesses the colour and lustre of aluminium and has a specific gravity of 121. ... Pure rhodium, as well as that which contains gold and platinum, ..."

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