Rhodium Facts Archive

  • Rhodium is available in the market through investment in mining companies and in the portfolio of certain exchange traded funds, but it always adds an element of risk. Portfolio managers who invest in rhodium are usually aggressively based and growth oriented. Also, with the use of rhodium in the catalytic converters of automobiles, its price does have an effect on the automobile induustry, and vice versa.

    Rhodium’s Effect on the Economy

    Posted on November 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Rhodium is available in the market through investment in mining companies and in the portfolio of certain exchange traded funds, but it always adds an element of risk. Portfolio managers who invest in rhodium are usually aggressively based and growth oriented. Also, with the use of rhodium in the catalytic converters of automobiles, its price does have an effect on the automobile induustry, and vice versa.

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  • His procedure involved dissolving the ore in aqua regia, neutralizing the acid with sodium hydroxide (NaOH). He then precipitated the platinum metal by adding ammonium chloride, NH4Cl, as ammonium chloroplatinate. The element palladium was removed as palladium cyanide after treating the solution with mercuric cyanide. The material that remained was a red rhodium(III) chloride: rhodium metal was isolated via reduction with hydrogen gas.

    Rhodium

    Posted on November 26, 2010 | No Comments
    His procedure involved dissolving the ore in aqua regia, neutralizing the acid with sodium hydroxide (NaOH). He then precipitated the platinum metal by adding ammonium chloride, NH4Cl, as ammonium chloroplatinate. The element palladium was removed as palladium cyanide after treating the solution with mercuric cyanide. The material that remained was a red rhodium(III) chloride: rhodium metal was isolated via reduction with hydrogen gas.

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