Rhodium is a hard silvery white and durable metal that has a high reflectance. It changes in air to the resquioxide[?] while slowly cooling from a red hot state but at higher temperatures converts back to the metal. Rhodium has both a higher melting point and lower density than platinum. It isn't attacked by acids and only dissolves in aqua regia.
The primary use of this element is as an alloying agent for hardening platinum and palladium. These alloys are used in furnace windings, bushings for glass fiber production, thermocouple elements, electrodes for aircraft spark plugs, and laboratory crucibles. Other uses;
It is used as an electrical contact material due to its low electrical resistance, low and stable contact resistance, and its high corrosion resistance.
Plated rhodium, made by electroplating or evaporation, is extremely hard and is used for optical instruments.
This metal finds use in jewelry and for decorations.
It is also a highly useful catalyst in a number of industrial processes (notably it is used in the catalytic system of automobile catalytic converters[?]).
The industrial extraction of rhodium is complex as the metal occurs in ores mixed with other metals such as palladium, silver, [[platinum], and gold. It is found in in platinum ores and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Principal sources of this element are located in river sands of the Ural Mountains, in North and South America and also in the copper-nickel sulfide[?] mining area of the Sudbury, Ontario region. Although the quantity at Sudbury is very small, the large amount of nickel ore processed makes rhodium recovery cost effective. However, the annual world production of this element is only 7 or 8 tons and there are very few rhodium minerals.
Naturally occurring rhodium is composed of only one isotope (Rh-103). The most stable radioisotopes are Rh-101 with a half-life of 3.3 years, Rh-102 with a half-life of 207 days, and Rh-99 with a half-life of 16.1 days. Twenty other radioisotopes have been characterized with atomic weights ranging from 92.926 amu (Rh-93) to 116.925 amu (Rh-117). Most of these have half-lifes that are less than an hour except Rh-100 (half-life: 20.8 hours) and Rh-105 (half-life: 35.36 hours). There are also numerous meta states with the most stable being Rhm-102 (0.141 MeV) with a half-life of about 2.9 years and Rhm-101 (0.157 MeV) with a half-life of 4.34 days.
Compounds that contain rhodium are not encountered by most people often and should be considered to by highly toxic and carcinogenic. Rhodium compounds can stain human skin very strongly. This element plays no biological role in humans.
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