Rhodium Plating

A. Litwin, writing in the voice of Andy feels like Alan Watts when the topic is Rhodium plating or LGD [Lab Grown Diamonds] for that matter. Rhodium has the Atomic Number of 45 and is in column [group] nine of Elements on the Periodic Table of Elements. There are a total of eighteen columns [groups] in this table [why that is–and that there are seven rows (periods) is another story] so that places Rhodium in the middle column and is in the d-block [of the four blocks of elements- another, intimately, closely related story] made up of the Transition Metals....