Period 5 element and because of its rarity, rhodium is usually alloyed with platinum or palladium and applied in high-temperature and corrosion-resistive coatings. White gold is often plated with a thin rhodium layer to improve its optical impression while sterling silver is often rhodium plated for tarnish resistance. Rhodium detectors are used in nuclear reactors to measure the neutron flux level. Palladium is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pd and an atomic number of 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named
Effective atomic number possible to obtain a much more accurate single-valued Z by weighting against the spectrum of the source. The effective atomic number for electron interactions may be calculated with a similar approach; see for instance Taylor "et al." 2009 and Taylor 2011. The cross-section based approach for determining Z is obviously much more complicated than the simple power-law approach described above, and this is why freely-available software has been developed for such calculations (Taylor "et al." 2012). Effective atomic number Effective atomic number has two different meanings: one that is the effective nuclear charge of an atom, and one that calculates