Discovered in the early 1800s from a chunk of smuggled platinum ore, rhodium is the most valuable precious metal on the ...

I respectfully signed for the package and solemnly carried it back with me to the laboratory, as the 50g of rhodium chloride it contained represented more than half a years earnings for a PhD student ...

Today, it's the most valuable precious metal on the planet: rhodium, a chemical element with the symbol Rh and atomic number 45. With his chunk of smuggled platinum ore, in a few years Wollaston ...