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Definition of palladium noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

palladium

noun
 
/pəˈleɪdiəm/
 
/pəˈleɪdiəm/
[uncountable]
(symbol Pd)
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  1. a chemical element. Palladium is a rare silver-white metal that looks like platinum.
    Word Originearly 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Pallas, the name given to an asteroid discovered in 1802 just before the element.
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