Lǎo shì yì zhǒng yín bái sè de guì jīnshǔ, yuánzǐ xù shù wéi sìshíwǔ.
Rhodium is a silvery-white precious metal, element number 45.
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铑 is never used on its own outside chemistry. It is a modern phono-semantic coinage: the metal radical 钅 marks it as a metal and 老 supplies the sound. Coined in the same systematic way as the other metal-element names 铂, 钯 and 锇.
