At the beginning of all silver compounds is silver nitrate, a colourless, easily crystallizing salt that is soluble in large quantities, has amazin...

The precious metal rhodium is one of the platinum group elements alongside platinum, palladium, iridium, ruthenium and osmium. As one of the rarest...

Environmentally conscious politicians want to limit the use of PFAS chemicals to the bare minimum, while manufacturers are warning against a compre...

Environmentally conscious politicians want to limit the use of PFAS chemicals to the bare minimum, while manufacturers are warning against a compre...

The REACh chemicals regulation has significantly tightened the parameter requirements for substances and mixtures since 2007. The regulations, whic...

At around 0.4 %, titanium is the tenth most common element in the earth's crust. It is mainly found there in the form of ilmenite, an iron titanate...

The radioactive element thorium with its almost pure isotope Th-232 can look back on numerous applications. These include sputtering technology for...

5.7 Palladium preparations

Palladium usually has an oxidation number of +2 in its compounds. In complexes and chelates, the doubly positi...

After platinum, palladium is also one of the most sought-after, versatile metals of the six platinum group elements, which also include rhodium, ir...