rhodium
See also: Rhodium
English
    
| Chemical element | |
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| Rh | |
| Previous: ruthenium (Ru) | |
| Next: palladium (Pd) | |
Etymology
    
Borrowed from New Latin rhodium, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), because of the colour of its salts' solutions.
Pronunciation
    
- enPR: rō'dēəm, IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊdiəm/
- Audio (Southern England) - (file) 
- Rhymes: -oʊdiəm
Noun
    
rhodium (usually uncountable, plural rhodiums)
- A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
Derived terms
    
- rhodate
- rhodium-gold
- rhodium trichloride
Related terms
    
- rhodic
- rhodo- and its derivatives
- rhodonite (etymologically related [via color] but not chemically related)
- rhodium wood, lignum rhodium
Translations
    
chemical element
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Danish
    
    
Noun
    
rhodium n (definite singular rhodiummet) (uncountable)
- rhodium (a metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with atomic number 45)
French
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ʁɔ.djɔm/
- Audio - (file) 
Further reading
    
- “rhodium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
    
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Rh | |
| Previous: ruthenium (Ru) | |
| Next: palladium (Pd) | |
Etymology
    
Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).
Pronunciation
    
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈro.di.um/, [ˈrɔd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈro.di.um/, [ˈrɔːd̪ium]
Norwegian Bokmål
    
    
Norwegian Nynorsk
    
    
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