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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) rhodium
a silvery white metallic element of the platinum family, forming salts that give rose-colored solutions: used to electroplate metals to prevent corrosion.

Etymology: (1804; < NL; see rhodo -, -ium²)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) rhodium, Rh, atomic number 45
a white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum

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Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) rhodium
a rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. rhodium
Rhodium. A hard and rare metal of the platinum group, atomic number 45, atomic weight 102.905, symbol Rh. (Dorland, 28th ed)

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