Palladium is element 46, a transition metal of the d block, in group 10, period 5. Its ground-state configuration is [Kr] 4d10, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 4.
It was discovered in 1803, by Wollaston.
Name origin: the then recently discovered asteroid Pallas, considered a planet at the time.
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