Periodic Table · element
Rhodium
Rh · Z 45
- atomic number
- 45
- atomic mass
- 102.91
- notation
- Rh
- group
- 9: Cobalt
- period
- 5
- state0c
- Solid
- state20c
- Solid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 12.41
- melting pt
- 1963
- boiling pt
- 3695
- discovered
- 1804
- abundance
- 0.001
- ore grade
- 0.3
- ore minerals
- in Bushveld UG2 chromitite, with platinum
- mined as
- By-product
extraction
Comes out of the platinum-group refinery in tiny amounts — about a tenth of the platinum — from the same South African reefs. There is no rhodium mine, which is why its price swings so violently.
categories
#Metal#Transition Metal
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