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rhodium

  • noun
  • rō'dēəm

A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.

Other meanings

  1. A single atom of this element.

A kind of

  • metallic element

Related words

  • dirhodium
  • rhodium gold
  • octarhodium
  • organorhodium
  • rhodian
  • trirhodium
  • rhodate
  • rhodium-gold
  • rhodium trichloride

Word history

From Ancient Greek "ῥόδον" (rose).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “rhodium” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.