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carscars Posts: 1,904
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Is it coincidence that Rhodium, Platinum & Palladium all end with um? Noticed it last night while watching "how its made", They were producing designer Pens and they coated them in one of these 3 precious metals, Gold also. I had no clue they used Rhodium.
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a hold over from Latin. It's just a general noun suffix: Gymnasium, auditorium. The latin words for gold and silver are aurum and argentum. Note also uranium, plutonium, etc.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
    I believe they all belong to a single group as well, the PMGs, or platinum metals group. And no, its not some new rock band.image
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