Earth’s rarest element: Rhodium
Rhodium, as well as platinum and palladium, was discovered relatively late. Specifically in 1804 and by the same man who discovered palladium, William Wollaston. Lire la suite […]
Rhodium, as well as platinum and palladium, was discovered relatively late. Specifically in 1804 and by the same man who discovered palladium, William Wollaston. Lire la suite […]
As for platinum and rhodium, palladium discovery comes quite late in human history. William Wollaston (the same man who identified rhodium [link]) was discovered and named in 1802. After a brief moment of skepticism where the metal was mistaken to an alloy, it follows a long period where resources were limited in the extreme. Lire la suite [...]
If silver is much cheaper than gold, it’s simply because it’s much more common but not only. Lire la suite […]
With other precious metals than silver and gold, their stories are very different. Lire la suite […]
If gold is the precious metal it is today, and not silver, platinum, palladium or copper is because it was both early accessible and not plentiful for mankind, which made it a material that was used early on but also difficult to obtain. Lire la suite […]