Palladium

  • Pd
  • Type: Metal, Platinum Group Metal
  • Colour: silvery white
  • Mohs Hardness: 4.75
  • Transparency: opaque
  • Lustre: Metallic: This luster has the shine of polished metal, like gold, silver, or copper. It reflects light strongly and uniformly, creating a mirror-like appearance.
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General Information

Palladium is a rare and lustrous silvery-white platinum group metal. As compared to other platinum group metals, they have similar chemical properties, but palladium has the lowest melting point and is the least dense of them. The most common use of platinum is as a catalyst in chemical reactions, as an investment or as jewelry.
  • Density: 12.023 g/cm3
  • Melting Point: 1554.9
  • Boiling Point: 2963
  • Thermal Conductivity: 71.8 W/(mâ‹…K)
  • Electrical Resistivity: 105.4 nΩ⋅m (at 20 °C)
  • Magnetism: Paramagnetic

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Extraction often occurs as a byproduct during copper or nickel processing, making their production dependent on the economics of those main metals.

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