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Rhodium

Published on Dec 05, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

RHODIUM

By Alexis Oakley

INFORMATION

  • Rhodium is a chemical element
  • Thats is a rare silvery-white
  • Hard,and chemically inherit
  • It belongs to platinum metal group
  • It is also a transition metal

WHERE ITS LOCATED

  • Its atomic #is 45
  • Its located in group 5
  • And located in period 9

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • Rhodium is conductive
  • Its also reacts with acids and bases
  • Its pronounced RO-dee-em.
  • Its atomic mass is 102.9055

METAL

  • Rhodium is a metal
  • It melts at -1,963'c
  • Boiling at -3,695'c
  • Its solid at room temperature

ORIGIN

  • first found in a sample of platinum
  • In 1803 William Wollostone found it
  • After his discovery of palladium
  • It was originally a dark red powder
  • It originally found in South America

Mr.Wollostone got it by adding hydrogen gas to the platinum

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  • Its density is 12.4 per cubic cm
  • It freezes at 2236'c
  • Its used ti make furnace coils:
  • Also air craft spark plugs
  • And laboratory crucibles

It's used in jewelry and in wire coatings. It coats jewelry because of the silvery white color it has.