noun #41,706

Meanings

  1. 1 palladium (chemical element, Pd)

Examples

Bǎ néng dàliàng xī fù qīngqì.
Palladium can absorb large amounts of hydrogen gas.

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history
has no everyday standalone use beyond chemistry. It is a modern coinage: metal radical plus the sound element . An old, now obsolete, reading was once a variant of (a rake); modern usage keeps only the element sense.

Components

radical
jīnzìpáng
metal
is the left-side form of (metal), the marker shared by every translated metallic-element name and the reason reads as a metal.
phonetic
phonetic element
supplies the sound, giving its reading with a tone shift. It contributes no meaning, just the pronunciation.

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