Crossword-Solution: PALLADIUM
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| Palladium | n. | Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy. |
| Palladium | n. | Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. |
| Palladium | n. | A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2. |
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| Atomic No. 46 | 1 answer |
| London variety theatre | 1 answer |
| Rare element harder than platinum. | 1 answer |
| Sacred object reputedly protecting a city | 1 answer |
| TROY, image of Pallas Athena given to the city of | 1 answer |
| platinum metal | 1 answer |
| silvery-white element of the platinum metal group | 1 answer |
| London theatre. | 5 answers |
| silver-white metallic element | 10 answers |
| A SILVER-WHITE METALLIC ELEMENT OF THE PLATINUM GROUP THAT RESEMBLES PLATINUM | 11 answers |
| metallic chemical element | 20 answers |
| Safeguard | 45 answers |
| refuge | 73 answers |
| Entertainer | 83 answers |
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Sentences with PALLADIUM (5)
Cold Fusion, the brief prayer for immediate, cheap energy inde- pendence made headlines, but Scott Mason dug deep and found that some of the advocates of Cold Fusion had vested interests in palladium and iridium mining concerns.
His work included the adjudgment of the arms of Achilles to Odysseus, the madness of Aias, the bringing of Philoctetes from Lemnos and his cure, the coming to the war of Neoptolemus who slays Eurypylus, son of Telephus, the making of the wooden horse, the spying of Odysseus and his theft, along with Diomedes, of the Palladium: the analysis concludes with the admission of the wooden horse into Troy by the Trojans.
Why should the national unity be attached to a certain place, to certain functionaries, to certain bayonets? Why should the Place Maubert and the Palace of the Tuileries be the palladium of France? Now let me make an hypothesis.
The work of instruction was simple enough, for most of the pupils began with the alphabet, which they acquired from Webster's blue-backed spelling-book, the palladium of Southern education at that epoch.
The wooden statue so well known as the Palladium of Troy was placed in close apposition with the wooden head of General Jackson, which was stolen a few years since from the bows of the frigate Constitution.
Quotes with PALLADIUM (3)
It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned; a…
Human reason reduced to its own resources is perfectly worthless, not only for creating but also for preserving any political or religious association, because it only produces disputes, and, to conduct himself well, man needs not problems but beliefs. His cradle should be surrounded by dogmas, and when his reason is awakened, it should find all his opinions ready-made, at least all those relating to his conduct. Nothing is so important to him as prejudices, Let us not take t…
There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1951–2015).