RHODIUM

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 27

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A metal discovered in 1703, by Wollaston, a ociated with palladium in the ore of platinum.Itis of a whitish colour, very difficult of fusion, and very hard. Its specific gravity is about 11, and its equivalent about 52. It has been used for the points of metallic pens. [s. 1074]