rhodium

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), because of the colour of its salts' solutions.

noun

  1. A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.
  2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

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