Periodic Table · element
Palladium
Pd · Z 46
- atomic number
- 46
- atomic mass
- 106.42
- notation
- Pd
- group
- 10: Nickel
- period
- 5
- state0c
- Solid
- state20c
- Solid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 12.023
- melting pt
- 1555
- boiling pt
- 2963
- discovered
- 1802
- abundance
- 0.015
- ore grade
- 3
- ore minerals
- in nickel-copper sulfides at Norilsk and Sudbury; the J-M reef; with platinum
- mined as
- Primary
extraction
Recovered alongside platinum from the same matte, and as a by-product of nickel smelting in the Arctic. Norilsk alone supplies about 40 % of the world's palladium; the separation chemistry is the platinum-group refinery's.
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