I was watching Iron Man yesterday on a channel yesterday , (because the final of the IPl match ) suddenly turned boring.
So I switched to the multi talented macho IRON MAN , the only super hero which has the Xfactor that Girls like .
Although I had watched the Stark Enterprises before to , but this time , the Desert where Tony Spark , assembles his reactor attracted me .
Well it was one of a KIND thing , truelly engineer is Tony Spark and I like him for the two reasons
: he CHERISHES girls
: he is one of a HELL inventor ..... GOSH ...a DESERT and he comes up with a IRON MAN , you can say it is not acceptable but wait it can be surely ,
If you can have one Sir called Bil Gates in the field of COMPUTING , then SIR EINSTEIN in physice then why not SIR in ULTIMATE ROBOTICS.
So , is palladium really such a WONDER thing , I had a look into in (thanks to WIKIPEDIA) , I came up with something really intersting hope you like it to.
Thanks For PALLA time !!!
Applications
A Soviet 25-rouble commemorative
palladium coin is a rare example of the monetary usage of palladium.
The largest use of palladium today is in catalytic converters.
[35] Palladium is also used in jewelry, in
dentistry,
[35][36] watch making, in blood sugar test strips, in aircraft
spark plugs and in the production of
surgical instruments and
electrical contacts.
[37] Palladium is also used to make professional
transverse flutes.
[38] As a commodity, palladium
bullion has
ISO currency codes of XPD and 964. Palladium is one of only four metals to have such codes, the others being
gold,
silver and
platinum.
[39]
Catalysis
When it is finely divided, such as in
palladium on carbon, palladium forms a versatile
catalyst and speeds up
hydrogenation and
dehydrogenation reactions, as well as in
petroleum cracking. A large number of
carbon-carbon bond forming reactions in
organic chemistry (such as the Heck and
Suzuki coupling) are facilitated by catalysis with palladium compounds. (see
#Compounds and
palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions) In addition palladium, when dispersed on conductive materials, proves to be an excellent electrocatalyst for oxidation of primary alcohols in alkaline media.
[40] In 2010, palladium-catalysed organic reactions were recognised by the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Palladium is also a versatile metal for
homogeneous catalysis. It is used in combination with a broad variety of
ligands for highly selective chemical transformations. A 2008 study showed that palladium is an effective catalyst for making carbon-fluoride bonds.
[41] Palladium is found in the
Lindlar catalyst, also called Lindlar's Palladium.
[42]
Electronics
The second biggest application of palladium in electronics is making the
multilayer ceramic capacitor.
[43] Palladium (and palladium-silver alloys) are used as electrodes in multi-layer ceramic
capacitors.
[35] Palladium (sometimes alloyed with nickel) is used in connector platings in consumer electronics.
[44][45]
It is also used in plating of electronic components and in soldering materials. The electronic sector consumed 1.07 million
troy ounces (33.2 tonnes) of palladium in 2006, according to a
Johnson Matthey report.
[46]
[edit] Technology
Palladium-based sorbents are efficient in removing mercury from industrial gases.
[47] Hydrogen easily diffuses through heated palladium; thus, it provides a means of purifying the gas.
[3] Membrane reactors with Pd membranes are therefore used for the production of high purity hydrogen.
[48] Palladium is a part of the
palladium-hydrogen electrode in electrochemical studies.
Palladium(II) chloride can oxidize large amounts of carbon monoxide gas, and is used in
carbon monoxide detectors.
[49]
Hydrogen storage
Palladium hydride is metallic palladium that contains a substantial quantity of hydrogen within its
crystal lattice. At
room temperature and atmospheric
pressure, palladium can adsorb up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen in a reversible process.
[50] This property has been investigated because hydrogen storage is of such interest and a better understanding of what happens at the molecular level could give clues to designing improved
metal hydrides. A palladium based store, however, would be prohibitively expensive due to the cost of the metal.
[51]
Jewelry
Palladium itself has been used as a precious metal in jewelry since 1939, as an alternative to platinum or
white gold. This use resulted in the naturally white color of palladium which required no
rhodium plating. Palladium is proportionally much lighter than platinum. Similar to gold, palladium can be beaten into a thin leaf form as thin as 100 nm (1/250,000 in).
[3] Unlike platinum, palladium may discolor upon heating to above 400 °C;
[52] it is relatively brittle and reacts with strong acids such as
nitric acid or
aqua regia.
[53]
Palladium is one of the three most popular metals used to make white gold alloys (
nickel and silver can also be used).
[35] Palladium-gold is a more expensive alloy than nickel-gold, but seldom causes allergic reactions (though certain cross-allergies with nickel may occur).
[54]
When platinum was declared a strategic government resource during
World War II, many jewelry bands were made out of palladium. As recently as September 2001,
[55] palladium was more expensive than platinum and rarely used in jewelry also due to the technical obstacle of
casting. However the casting problem has been resolved and its use in jewelry has increased because of a large spike in the price of platinum and a drop in the price of palladium.
[56]
Prior to 2004, the principal use of palladium in jewelry was the manufacture of white gold. In early 2004, when gold and platinum prices rose steeply, China began fabricating significant volumes of palladium jewelry and used 37
tonnes of palladium for this purpose in 2005. Changes of the relative price between palladium and platinum after 2008 lowered demand for palladium to 17.4 tonnes in 2009.
[57][58]
Photography
With the
platinotype printing process photographers make fine-art black-and-white prints using platinum or palladium salts. Often used with platinum, palladium provides an alternative to silver.
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