WikiWord

English

palladium

/pəˈleɪdiəm/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A safeguard.
  2. A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
  3. A single atom of this element.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

pd(English)atomic number 46(English)gold(English)catalyzed(English)palladium black(English)radiopalladium(English)palladseite(English)eka-platinum(English)rhodium(English)aryl(English)osmium(English)ruthenium(English)

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
palladium — meaning and etymology | WikiWord