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Encyclopedia > Palladium (disambiguation)

Originally, palladium referred to a statue of anyone called "Pallas". It is a Latinization of the Greek word παλλαδιον, and is often transliterated as "palladion". More information may be found at Pallas (disambiguation). In Greek mythology, there are: Pallas the Titan, son of Crius and Eurybia. ...


In Greek and Roman mythology, Palladium may also refer to the following:

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Palladium may also refer to: A Roman copy of a Greek statue of Pallas. ... Pallas Athena. ... Drawing from a sculpture of Athena at the Louvre. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary[1] is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

  • Palladium, a chemical element
  • The Hollywood Palladium, a theater on the Sunset Strip that opened in 1940
  • The London Palladium, a theater in London owned by Andrew Lloyd-Webber
  • The Palladium Ballroom, credited as the origin of the mambo craze in the US
  • Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game, a fantasy role-playing game
  • Palladium Books, the publishers of the Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game
  • Palladium ES, a new global strategy execution firm formed by the merger of Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, PaintedWord, and ThinkFast Consulting
  • Palladian, a style of architecture created by Andrea Palladio
  • Scotiabank Place, a sports arena in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that was originally named "The Palladium"
  • Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, a trusted computing initiative began by Microsoft that was codenamed "Palladium"
  • "Palladium" (XPD), one of the ISO 4217 currency codes

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Palladium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (871 words)
Palladium is a soft steel-white metal that resembles platinum, doesn't tarnish in air, and is the least dense and has the lowest melting point of the platinum group metals.
Palladium is chemically attacked by sulfuric and nitric acid but dissolves slowly in hydrochloric acid.
Palladium is found as a free metal and alloyed with platinum and gold with platinum group metals in placer deposits of the Ural Mountains, Australia, Ethiopia, South and North America.
Palladium - Wikipedia (765 words)
Palladium is a chemical element, in the periodic table that has the symbol Pd and atomic number 46.
The compound palladium chloride[?] was at one time prescribed as a tuberculosis treatment at the rate of 0.065 g per day (approximately 1 mg per kg of body weight).
Traditionally, a palladium is a statue of Pallas Athena, especially, the one that Odysseus took from the citadel of Troy and upon which the city's security was believed to depend.
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