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Rhodium
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Indo-European
Rhodium Latin Germanic
Rhodium AfrikaansRhodium Danish Rhodium German Rhodium English Rodium Faroese Rhodium Frisian (West) Ródín Icelandic Rhodium Luxembourgish Rhodium Dutch Rhodium Norwegian Rodium Swedish Italic
Rodio AragoneseRodiumu Aromanian Rodiu Asturian Rodi Catalan Rodio Spanish Rhodium French Rodi Friulian Rodio Galician Rodio Italian Ròdi Lombard Ròdi Occitan Ródio Portuguese Rodiu Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Родий [Rodij] BulgarianRodij[um] Bosnian Родый [rodyj] Belarusian Rhodium Czech Rodij Croatian Ród Kashubian Родиум [Rodium] Macedonian Rod Polish Родий [Rodij] Russian Ródium Slovak Rodij Slovenian Родијум [Rodijum] Serbian Родій [rodij] Ukrainian Baltic
Rodis LithuanianRodijs Latvian Ruodis Samogitian Celtic
Rodiom BretonRhodiwm Welsh Róidiam Gaelic (Irish) Ròidiam Gaelic (Scottish) Roydjum Gaelic (Manx) Rhodyum Cornish Other Indo-European
Ροδιο [rodio] GreekՌոդիում [ŗodium] Armenian Rodium, ²Rhodiumi Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Rodyûm KurdishРодий [rodij] Ossetian Родий [Rodi'] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
রোডিয়াম [roḍiẏāma] Bengaliرودیم [rwdym] Persian રોડિયમનો [roḍiyamano] Gujarati रोडियम [roḍiyama] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Roodium EstonianRodium Finnish Ródium Hungarian Родий [Rodij] Komi Родий [Rodij] Mari Роди [rodi] Moksha Roodium Võro Altaic
Rodium AzerbaijaniРоди [Rodi] Chuvash Родий [rodij] Kazakh Родий [Rodij] Kyrgyz Роди [rodi] Mongolian Rodyum Turkish رودىي [rodiy] Uyghur Rodiy Uzbek Other (Europe)
Rodioa Basqueროდიუმი [rodiumi] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
روديوم [rūdiyūm] Arabicרודיום [rodium] Hebrew Rodju[m] Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Ló (銠) Hakkaロジウム [rojiumu] Japanese 로듐 [rodyum] Korean โรเดียม [rōdiam] Thai Rođi Vietnamese 銠 [lao3 / lo5] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Rodyo CebuanoRodium Indonesian Rhodium Māori Rodium Malay Other Asiatic
റോഡിയം [ṟōḍiyam] Malayalamரோடியம் [rōţiyam] Tamil Africa
Lodu LingalaRhodiamo Sesotho Rodi Swahili North-America
Rodio NahuatlSouth-America
Rodyu QuechuaCreole
Rodimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Rodio EsperantoNew names
Rodion Atomic ElementsBrazilium Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Due to the colour of the chloride RhCl3 and of the respective aqueous solutions, Wollaston chose the name rhodium, after the Greek Ροδον [rodon] = rose (colour of a rose):
Although in undated notebooks Wollaston refers to it as "N-novm" (perhaps Novum). He published details of this discovery immediately after its isolation; apparently he had no desire to initiate a second dispute, as with Palladium.
Chemistianity 1873
WAYAN
RHODIUM, Platinum's natural ally, A metal of almost silver-white hue, Is hard to fuese yet very mall'able; Insoluble per se in all Acids, Though Aqua Regia dissolves its alloys.
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