Talk:Rhodium
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[edit] Information Sources
Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Rhodium. Additional text was taken directly from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org), Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (via dict.org) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org). Data for the table were obtained from the sources listed on the subject page and Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements but were reformatted and converted into SI units.
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Are you sure about the specific heat? I think you may be off by a factor of 1000.
[edit] Unusual Property
Rhodium supposedly will not react with Fluorine, even though it will form compounds with Oxygen, Chlorine, etc.
[edit] Nuclear source
If significant amounts of rhodium occur in spent nuclear fuel, what is it a decay or fission product of? --Carnildo 05:27, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] biological activity and jewlery
The article says: "Compounds that contain rhodium are not often encountered by most people and should be considered to be highly toxic and carcinogenic. Rhodium compounds can stain human skin very strongly. This element plays no biological role in humans."
If that is really true, why is it used to plate jewlery? 71.199.123.24
-The article means COMPOUNDS, not the actual metal itself. the base metal is harmless but compounds such as rhodium (III) fluoride or rhodium (III) chloride
Borislav Dopudja 18:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Elemetal rhodium is harmless, but his salts should be treated as a deadly poison.
[edit] Rhodium in 'Grills'
As many may know, Rhodium is used in plating jewelry. Among this jewelry, now commonly found to contain Rhodium, are Grills (dental jewelry most popular in hip hop fashion.)There has been talk of Rhodium making the wearers 'sick'; though no actual symptoms were specified. Perhaps more research should be done in this area.
Gold may very well be toxic - the issue is that it's so inert that normally you're hard pushed to get any compounds formed in the first place. There are a handful that I've come across - lithium auride I think is one, along with LiAuCl and some others like the arthritis drug aurothioglucose. Oh. This is a discussion on Rhodium. Never mind. Dan Pope 00:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
