Palladium is the chemical element with atomic number 46 and its symbol is Pd.

It is a rare metal, with a silvery-white appearance, of the platinum group to which it also chemically resembles: it is mainly extracted from some copper and nickel minerals.

It is soft and ductile after annealing, but greatly increases its strength and hardness if it is cold worked.

Palladium was discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1803 at the same time as rhodium. He named it in honor of the asteroid Pallas, discovered two years earlier.

Palladium chloride was prescribed in the past as a cure for tuberculosis in doses of 0.065 grams per day (about 1 mg per kg of body weight). This treatment had major side effects, so it was later replaced by more effective drugs.

Some uses of palladium:

• white gold is an alloy of gold and palladium, in which the latter is added to discolour the gold;
• like gold, palladium can be reduced to a leaf, with a thickness of up to 0.1 μm;
• telecommunication switching systems use palladium;
• it is also used in dentistry, as a component of some noble alloys used for making crowns and bridges, and in watchmaking;
• for surgical instruments and electrical contacts;
• as one of the elements for the creation of a glass with a high level of resistance;
• in the construction of high-tech military armor (together with coltan and various alloys).

In recent cinematography, palladium is one of the elements used by Tony Stark in the film Iron Man to build the Arc reactor, a device capable of producing energy, to power an electromagnet, which keeps the metallic fragments of a bomb that hit him. The reactor also acts as an energy source for the mechanical armor that the film's protagonist creates and wears. However, over time, as can be seen in the movie Iron Man 2, palladium will poison Tony Stark himself, who will have to find an element that can replace it.

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The Periodic Table NFT project aims to raise awareness of chemical elements in a modern key, basing the approach on blockchain and Non Fungible Token.
Day after day it will be possible to know the single elements that make up the table, to collect curiosities about each of them and about the table in general.
We are working to be able to learn, in a playful way, also what happens by combining the various elements.
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Elements released

• The first 30 elements
• #31 Gallium (max supply 200)
• #32 Germanium (max supply 149)
• #33 Arsenic (max supply 200)
• #34 Selenium (max supply 99)
• #35 Bromine (max supply 200)
• #36 Krypton (max supply 200)
• #37 Rubidium (max supply 249)
• #38 Strontium (max supply 200)
• #39 Yttrium (max supply 149)
• #40 Zirconium (max supply 99)
• #41 Niobium (max supply 200)
• #42 Molybdenum (max supply 200)
• #43 Technetium (max supply 200)
• #44 Ruthenium (max supply 299)
• #45 Rhodium (max supply 99)
• #46 Palladium (max supply 200)

Molecule released

• H2O - Water (max supply 37)
• NaCl - Salt (max supply 64)
• CaC2 - Calcium carbide (max supply 46)
• KMnO4 - Potassium permanganate (max supply 57)
• HCN - Hydrogen cyanide (max supply 59)
• CH2N2 - Diazomethane (max supply 46)
• LiCoO2 - Lithium cobalt oxide (max supply 53)
• LiBH4 - Lithium borohydride (max supply 51)
• PSYCO - Strychnine (max supply 42)

Celebrity released

• Lavoisier (max supply 149)
• Glauber (max supply 149)
• Marggraf (max supply 149)
• Curie (max supply 149)

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