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  I, Cringely . The Pulpit . I Told You So | PBS
Palladium is the code name for a Microsoft project to make all Internet communication safer by essentially pasting a digital certificate on every application, message, byte, and machine on the Net, then encrypting the data EVEN INSIDE YOUR COMPUTER PROCESSOR.
Palladium compatible hardware (presumably chipsets and motherboards) will come from both AMD and Intel, and the software will, of course, come from Microsoft.
Palladium assures that whatever hardware is running on the network of 10 years from now, it will be generating revenue for Microsoft.
www.pbs.org /cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html   (1077 words)

  
  C&EN: IT'S ELEMENTAL: THE PERIODIC TABLE - PALLADIUM
Palladium has been called the "amazing soaking sponge" for its ability at room temperature to absorb up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen, a property that can be exploited to purify hydrogen or activate it for chemical reaction.
Palladium's high resistance to corrosion leads to it being employed in the electronics sector and in the formulation of dental alloys, uses that constituted approximately one-third of world demand in 1999.
The use of palladium catalysis in the synthesis of fine chemicals is certain to continue to grow, stimulated by ongoing developments such as carbon-heteroatom cross-coupling reactions and broadly useful asymmetric processes for fashioning carbon stereocenters of chiral molecules in a single configuration.
pubs.acs.org /cen/80th/palladium.html   (677 words)

  
 Palladium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although originally +3 was thought of as one of the fundamental oxidation states of palladium, there is no evidence for palladium occurring in the +3 oxidation state; this has been investigated via X-ray diffraction for a number of compounds, indicating a dimer of palladium(II) and palladium(IV) instead.
Palladium is also used in dentistry[2], watch making, in aircraft spark plugs and in the production of surgical instruments and electrical contacts.
The compound palladium chloride was at one time prescribed as a tuberculosis treatment at the rate of 0.065g per day (approximately one milligram per kilogram of body weight).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palladium   (903 words)

  
 palladium
Palladium is used as a catalyst in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
Palladium is used extensively in industry in alloys, as a catalyst in hydrogen purification, and in dental inlays with platinum and gold.
Palladium is widely used in dentistry, often alloyed with gold, and in jewelry, alloyed with platinum.
www.speclab.com /elements/palladium.htm   (598 words)

  
 It's Elemental - The Element Palladium
Palladium was discovered by William Hyde Wollaston, an English chemist, in 1803 while analyzing samples of platinum ore that were obtained from South America.
Although it is a rare element, palladium tends to occur along with deposits of platinum, nickel, copper, silver and gold and is recovered as a byproduct of mining these other metals.
Palladium alloys are used to make jewelry and, when alloyed with gold, forms a material known as white gold.
education.jlab.org /itselemental/ele046.html   (169 words)

  
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Pallas, goddes of wisdom) Discovered in 1803 by Wollaston, Palladium is found along with platinum and other metals of the platinum group in placer deposits of Russia, South and North America, Ethiopia, and Australia.
Palladium is attacked by nitric and sulfuric acid.
Finely divided palladium is a good catalyst and is used for hydrogentation and dehydrogenation reactions.
www.scescape.net /~woods/elements/palladium.html   (236 words)

  
 palladium (chemistry) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about palladium (chemistry)
It often occurs in nature as a free metal (see native metal) in a natural alloy with platinum.
Palladium is used as a catalyst, in alloys of gold (to make white gold) and silver, in electroplating, and in dentistry.
It was discovered in 1803 by English physicist William Wollaston, and named after the asteroid Pallas (found in 1802).
encyclopedia.farlex.com /palladium+(chemistry)   (150 words)

  
 Palladium (Pd) - Chemical properties, Health and Environmental effects
Palladium is used extensively in jewelry-making in certain alloys called “white gold.” It may be alloyed with platinum or substituted for it.
Palladium is nowadays more and more used in electrical appliances such as wide screen televisions, computers and mobile phones, in the form of tiny multi-layer ceramic capacitors, of which more than 400 billion are made each year.
Palladium is found as the free metal associated with platinum and other platinum group metals in Australia, Brazil, Russia, Ethiopia, and North and South America, as well as with nickel and copper deposits (from which it is recovered commercially) in Canada and South Africa.
www.lenntech.com /Periodic-chart-elements/Pd-en.htm   (568 words)

  
 Chemistry : Periodic Table : palladium : key information
Small and large samples of palladium foil, sheet, and wire can be purchased from Advent Research Materials via their web catalogue.
Palladium is a steel-white metal, does not tarnish in air, and is the least dense and lowest melting of the platinum group metals.
Sometimes extraction of the precious metals such as platinum and palladium is the main focus of a partiular industrial operation while in other cases it is a byproduct.
www.webelements.com /webelements/elements/text/Pd/key.html   (0 words)

  
 What About Palladium? by Eric Englund
Before delving further into palladium, I would be remiss not to mention a bullish contrarian indicator as to why precious metals are in the early stages of a bull market.
Automobile Catalytic Converters: Palladium is used as a primary component in autocatalysts that reduce vehicle exhausts emissions of hydro-carbons, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and particulate.
Once the hydrogen gas passes through the palladium membrane, an ultra-pure hydrogen gas may be fed into the fuel cell — thus preventing the anode catalyst, in the fuel cell, from being poisoned by trace impurities.
www.lewrockwell.com /englund/englund32.html   (1718 words)

  
 Palladium
Palladium is mainly an industrial metal although it is considered as a precious metal.
Palladium prices are mostly responsive to economic supply and demand factors as other non-precious metals.
The graph above shows palladium's prices volatility, which is related at the same time to the fundamentals of the economy for its industrial application and to the market law for its precious metal function.
www.unctad.org /infocomm/anglais/palladium/prices.htm   (1423 words)

  
 Palladium (EHC 226, 2002)
Most of the palladium in the biosphere is in the form of the metal or the metal oxides, which are almost insoluble in water, are resistant to most reactions in the biosphere (e.g., abiotic degradation, ultraviolet radiation, oxidation by hydroxyl radicals) and do not volatilize into air.
Palladium has been found in the ash of a number of plants, leading to the suggestion that palladium is more environmentally mobile and thus bioavailable to plants than is platinum.
Palladium (as a solution of palladium(II) nitrate in the mg/litre concentration range) is frequently used as a chemical modifier to overcome interferences with the determination of various trace elements in biological materials by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GF-AAS) (Schlemmer and Welz, 1986; Taylor et al., 1998).
www.inchem.org /documents/ehc/ehc/ehc226.htm   (9698 words)

  
 Next-Generation Secure Computing Base - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Microsoft's stated aim for NGSCB is to increase the security and privacy of computer users[1], but critics assert that the technology will not only fail to solve the majority of contemporary IT security problems, but also result in an increase in vendor lock-in and a resulting reduction in competition in the IT marketplace.
In Greek and Roman mythology, a Palladium is an "image of immemorial antiquity on which the safety of a city was said to depend".
The name is particularly associated with a statue of the Goddess Athena which was kept in the citadel of Troy, and was believed to protect the Trojans against invading Greeks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base   (1641 words)

  
 The Chronicle: 2/21/2003: Control Issues
Palladium's software components will be part of the next major version of Windows, which Microsoft has said it may release toward the end of 2004.
But publishers could use Palladium's controls to unilaterally limit use of their materials, such as by restricting professors to a read-only view of the article, from which they could not "cut and paste" the text.
With Palladium, software publishers could decide to create programs that refuse to work with rival programs, a tactic that is difficult for them to get away with now, says Seth Schoen, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that promotes civil liberties in cyberspace.
chronicle.com /free/v49/i24/24a02701.htm   (2346 words)

  
 THE AMAZING METAL SPONGE: Simulations of Palladium-Hydride
The metal is palladium, number 46 on the periodic chart, and its most remarkable property, actually, is none of the above.
Palladium soaks up hydrogen like a sponge -- that is, if you can imagine a sponge that soaks up hundreds of buckets of water.
This makes palladium an efficient, safe storage medium for hydrogen and hydrogen isotopes, such as tritium, a byproduct of nuclear reactions.
www.psc.edu /science/Wolf/Wolf.html   (494 words)

  
 Microsoft "Palladium" Initiative Technical FAQ
The goal with "Palladium" is to help protect software from software; that is, to provide a set of features and services that a software application can use to defend against malicious software also running on the machine (viruses running in the main operating system, keyboard sniffers, frame grabbers, etc).
In addition, "Palladium" software can provide a mechanism to ensure that user interactions in unsafe environments (such as the Internet) can be safeguarded by software that the user trusts to protect his or her interests and wishes.
This central principle of "Palladium," that machine owners, whether they are individual consumers or organizations, are in complete control of their machines and the programs they run, is in stark contrast with some current proposals that would mandate that all machines include monitoring systems that could arbitrarily disable content or programs.
www.napolifirewall.com /MicrosoftPalladium.htm   (3727 words)

  
 American Elements: Palladium Supplier & Technical Information
Palladium is a member of the platinum group of metals.
Platinum is available as metal and compounds with purities from 99% to 99.999% (ACS grade to ultra-high purity); metals in the form of foil, sputtering target, and rod, and compounds as submicron and nanopowder.
Palladium is available in soluble forms including chlorides, nitrates and acetates.
www.americanelements.com /pd.html   (485 words)

  
 The Palladium, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
The Palladium is the wooden statue that fell from heaven and was kept at Troy; for as long as it was preserved, the city was safe.
Some have said that, along with the Palladium, Zeus cast Ate down to the world, seizing her hair and whirling her round his head, and swearing that she should never set foot in Olympus again.
However, the Palladium was supposed by some to have come to Argos, since they say that Erginus 4, a descendant of Diomedes 2, was persuaded by Temenus 2, one of the HERACLIDES, to steal the Palladium from that city (most likely before he conquered it).
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Palladium.html   (1682 words)

  
 Palladium
Palladium is mainly an industrial metal although it is considered as a precious metal.
The London Platinum and Palladium Market was established in 1987 with the purpose of formalizing the informal trade that had taken place on an over-the-counter basis for many years.
The graph above shows palladium's prices volatility, which is related at the same time to the fundamentals of the economy for its industrial application and to the market law for its precious metal function.
r0.unctad.org /infocomm/anglais/palladium/prices.htm   (1423 words)

  
 Stillwater Palladium The Palladium Metal Home
Palladium is a precious metal, one of the platinum group metals (PGM), which typically are found together in ore deposits.
At that location, the palladium ore bearing layer called the J-M (Johns-Manville) Reef is the richest known palladium deposit currently being exploited anywhere in the world.
The ore from Stillwater Mining’s operations is refined in a 3 stage process of extraction, concentration and refining.
www.stillwaterpalladium.com   (0 words)

  
 Microsoft Palladium
The documents (pdf 980k) describe Palladium's applications for Digital Rights Management and note that the technology embeds "unique machine identifiers," thus raising risks that user behavior may be subject to traffic analysis.
Palladium is a system that combines software and hardware controls to create a "trusted" computing platform.
Palladium and the TCPA, Cryptogram, August 15, 2002.
www.epic.org /privacy/consumer/microsoft/palladium.html   (0 words)

  
 Palladium holds Promise, and Peril
Some say the "Palladium" is a statue of Athena; others say it was a figurine made by Athena in the image of her lost friend Pallas, whom she killed in a childhood battle.
In its simplest form, Palladium is the conceptualization of a toolset that will allow one to define, in a very granular way, the extent of processes' trust level in a system, and to "seal" data into a trusted object or objects.
The architecture is such that, according to a Palladium team member, even a kernel-mode exploit could not gain access to the key management functions due to the new protected memory and chipset designs being used.
www.securityfocus.com /columnists/93   (931 words)

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