Ablation, also known as catheter ablation, is a treatment that aims to correct certain types of abnormal heart rhythms. Find out more about this procedure.
White gold is often plated with a thin rhodium layer to improve its appearance while sterling silver is often rhodium-plated for tarnish resistance. Rhodium detectors are used in nuclear reactors to measure the neutron flux level.t has only one naturally occurring isotope, 103 Rh. Naturally occurring rhodium is usually found as the free metal, alloyed with similar metals, and rarely as a chemical compound in minerals such as bowieite and rhodplumsite. It is one of the rarest and most valuable precious metals.
Rhodopsin. (also visual purple), the main visual pigment contained in the retinal rods of vertebrates (with the exception of certain fishes and amphibians during their early stages of development) and invertebrates.igure 1. Cycle of the principal changes undergone by rhodopsin in retinal rods. It has been found that the cell membranes of certain halophilic bacteria contain a pigment that is also composed of retinal, a glycoprotein, and lipids.