Rhodium is element 45, a transition metal of the d block, in group 9, period 5. Its ground-state configuration is [Kr] 4d8 5s1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 2, 3, 4.
It was discovered in 1803, by Wollaston.
Name origin: the Greek rhodos, meaning 'rose coloured'.
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