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to rsvp to myself.....
The platinum group metals are platinum, palladium, rhodium, osmium, ruthenium & iridium.
Whilst this may sound like pure periodic table chat, these are all important elements whose strong relationship with each other is of some importance to the geologists and geochemists that search for them. Rarely does one find deposits of just one of these elements, they are inevitably bundled together in the ground. As a consequence, assay results of samples taken to find these metals are often given as the total concentration of PGMs.
Just in case you were wondering.
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"palladium" = security so the phrase meant "in the security of the club".
This sounds about right, Bill. It does assume that the club is the palladium, mind. If not, the palladium is a special room in the club, a kind of inner sanctum.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Not to be confused with pallium, a not often used word, but one that fascinates me so I'll intentionally digress here from the discussion:
PALLIUM (plural: pallia)
"Inflected forms: pl. pal·li·ums or pal·li·a ( pl-) 1. A cloak or mantle worn by the ancient Greeks and Romans. 2. Ecclesiastical A vestment worn by the pope and conferred by him on archbishops and sometimes on bishops. Also called pall1. 3a. The mantle of gray matter forming the cerebral cortex. b. The mantle of a mollusk, brachiopod, or bird. ETYMOLOGY: Latin. "
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