#rhodium

Waterfall cuff by Lucy Quartermaine

Sterling silver with a rhodium overlay.

Actinium is courtesy of @ichibin-irish, the rest are by me with help from @sciphonpylon

Lanthanum's design has many more of the element's applications incorporated in it. His eyes are now lights as well, and he wears glasses since lanthanum compounds - particularly lanthanum(III) oxide - are used as additives in glass (though not in actual glasses but yknow, cute). His tail is a welding electrode, his body is a scintillation crystal/detector, and between his ears is a LaB6 cathode.

Actinium's design is mainly based on this particular isotope's potential use for radioisotope thermoelectric generators in things such as spacecraft. His backpack is such a generator according to Irish.

Dysprosium has a laser pointer tail, a hard drive on her back, wind turbines on her ears and a dosimeter in her forehead. Her blush and tongue are a bright green in reference to dysprosium oxide, though more saturated for the sake of looking nicer.

A Rhodium x Palladium fanart my friend made:

Day 45&46: Rhodium & Palladium!

Y’know I just have to join the catto kissing bandwagon that’s going on in the community :DDD

Scientists build arsenic-lined crystal pore framework to boost rhodium catalyst performance

Rhodium is one of the most powerful catalytic metals known to chemistry. Small amounts of it can drive reactions that produce millions of tons of useful chemicals every year. But getting rhodium to work well—quickly, selectively, and without degrading—depends heavily on the ligands surrounding it. In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, my colleagues and I show that swapping the usual phosphorus-based ligands for arsenic-based ones, and locking them inside a crystalline porous material, gives rhodium catalysts a significant performance boost.

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