palladium
noun/pəˈleɪdiəm/
/pəˈleɪdiəm/
[uncountable] (symbol Pd)
- a chemical element. Palladium is a rare silver-white metal that looks like platinum.Word Originearly 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Pallas, the name given to an asteroid discovered in 1802 just before the element.
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