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Silver-white metallic element
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palladium
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Palladium was an Australian band from Brisbane that was active from 1997 to 2003. The band consisted of members Chris Chalk (drums), Andrew Morris (guitar and vocals), Justin Sykes (bass) and Brant Ward (guitar and vocals). Palladium released their bebut ...
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Etymology 1 n. A safeguard (qualifier: from a statue of Athena that was believed to safeguard the ancient city of Troy). Etymology 2 n. A metallic chemical element (''symbol'' Pd) with an atomic number of 46.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"safeguard," c.1600, originally (late 14c.) "sacred image of Pallas Athene," from Latin palladium , from Greek Palladion , noun use of neuter of Palladios "of Pallas." It stood in the citadel of Troy and the safety of the city was believed to depend on ...
Usage examples of palladium.
She felt her nose, stiff with the palladium sponges inside its nostrils.
Agamemnon, Aeneas fled the burning city with his aged father perched upon his shoulder and the Palladium under one arm.
The gas chromatograph which separates out volatile substances and the mass spectrometer which detects ions were divided by a palladium separator.
You have been wisely admonished to "accustom yourselves to think and speak of the Union as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with Jealous anxiety, discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of any attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Tried to get a job at Palladium but some other Camden grad got the only job left: coat check.
It is keyed to the second triad of the periodic table, rhodium and ruthenium and palladium, in very much the same way that ferromagnetism is keyed to the first triad, iron and nickel and cobalt.
It is keyed to the second triad of the periodic table, rhodium and ruthenium and palladium, in very much the same way that ferromagnetism is keyed to the first triad, iron and nickel and cobalt.
Unless you threw out millennia of development work and started from scratch with a lump of sponge palladium and a hand calculator, there was no way to step clear of the ancient technology and produce a more efficient robot brain.
Baron Palladium wouldn't allow a cult like the Midnites to survive— providing he knew they existed.
Two of them came to Hippo, a brother and a sister, Paulus and Palladia, already known in many other places by the fame of their wretched lot.
A small concave palladium mirror, at the base of it, faced a similar mirror mounted on something not quite like a small rotary converter.