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	Palladium - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Palladium (element), symbol Pd, relatively rare, silvery white, soft metallic element.
		Palladium (mythology), in Greek mythology, statue of the goddess Athena holding a shield and a spear.
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	C&EN: IT'S ELEMENTAL: THE PERIODIC TABLE - PALLADIUM
		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.
		Palladium's remarkable catalytic properties are responsible for the widespread use of this metal in the chemical industry.
		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, chemical element. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Palladium is a lustrous silver-white metal with a face-centered cubic crystalline structure.
		Palladium is found in nature with platinum minerals and in association with the nickel ores mined near Sudbury, Ont., Canada.
		Palladium is used extensively in jewelry-making in certain alloys called “white gold.” It may be alloyed with platinum or substituted for it.
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	Palladium@Everything2.com
		Palladium is found with deposits of platinum and other members of the platinum metals in Russia, North America, South America, Ethiopia, and Australia; and with nickel-copper deposits in South Africa and Ontario, Canada.
		Palladium was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist, in London, England, in crude platinum ore from South America, who named it after the recently discovered asteroid Pallas.
		According to Greek and Roman Mythology, the Palladium fell from the sky at the feet of Dardanos, the king of Troy.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=palladium (2238 words)

	Palladium — Infoplease.com
		The Palladium was a colossal wooden statue of Pallas in the city of Troy, said to have fallen from heaven.
		Periodic Table of the Elements: Palladium - Periodic Table of the Elements: Palladium 46 Pd Palladium 106.42 2 · 8 · 18 18...
		Palladium, in Greek religion - Palladium Palladium, in Greek religion, sacred image kept in the temple of Athena at Troy.
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	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.
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	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).
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	Loads of useful articles and resources about Body Jewelry \| Body Jewelry Resources
		The combination of silver or palladium eliminates the yellow gold look and creates the rather white silver appearance.
		The main difference of which is that nickel-white gold have a colder white color wherein the palladium whites' color is a little warmer.
		Also it is very hard to achieve a good nickel white unlike with palladium whites which tends to be softer thus easier to process.
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	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		Palladium futures in Tokyo rose by as much as 9.5 percent, the maximum allowed and the biggest fluctuation of any commodity market today, amid expectations publication of industry data from Russia, the world's largest producer, may show lean stockpiles.
		Palladium for delivery in February 2006, the most actively traded contract on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange, rose 60 yen, the most allowed under exchange rules, to 693 yen a gram, or 21,552 yen ($204.40) an ounce, at 1:58 p.m.
		Palladium for immediate delivery rose $5,75, or 2.9 percent, to $204.30 an ounce at 1:59 p.m.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/05_Money/050304.palladium.html (490 words)

	RPGamer > The Saving Throw > Nov. 1, 2006
		In April, Palladium Books announced that it was facing a "Crisis of Treachery" and facing significant financial difficulties, the company appealed to its fans for help.
		Palladium has released further details, stating that the overwhelming support from its fans may result in the company being on solid financial footing by Summer 2007; its original projection was for recovery by Summer 2009.
		Palladium is again appealing to its fans for help by spreading the word, buying Palladium products, visiting Palladium at conventions, and keeping the hope alive; these may allow Palladium to maintain its recovery into 2007.
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	AllRefer.com - Palladium, in Greek religion (Ancient Religion) - Encyclopedia
		It was either an image of Athena or an image made by Athena of her unfortunate playmate Pallas (see Pallas 1).
		According to legend, the image was sent by Zeus to Dardanus, the founder of Troy, and it was believed that the city could not be taken while it possessed the Palladium.
		The Romans, who later claimed to have the true Palladium in their temple of the vestal virgins, said that Aeneas took it when he fled Troy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Palldium.html (257 words)

	Facts & Figures: Enchanted Objects
		The Palladium was said to protect Troy from invaders, however Heracles and Telamon had captured the city in Lacemedon's reign.
		It protected Troy, during the great Trojan War, until in the final stage of the war, Odysseus and Diomedes stole the Palladium from the temple of Athena, at the advice of the captured Trojan seer, Helenus, the son of Priam and Hecuba.
		The Palladium was said to have been in the temple of Vesta in Rome.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/objects.html (1007 words)

	Characters of Greek Mythology - Heroes - Ajax (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There are two characters in Greek mythology that go by the name Ajax.
		He wasn't a god but may have been considered close because, as a child, Heracles covered him with his lion's pelt which was said to have made him invulnerable to arrows in every place except his armpit and neck.
		He was denied the honor of cremation and was buried in a coffin.
	mythology.tonyarn.com /heroes/ajax.html (267 words)

	Slate -> The Fray -> Jurisprudence
		Palladium (mythology), the use of the term in Greek and Roman mythology
		Just as the Palladium was a sacred object that helped to define the essence of what it meant to be Athenian, he thinks the essence of the second amendment -- that a well-armed citizenry can take up arms against its government, should it become oppressive -- is at the heart of American freedom.
		And, it seems to support that the right to bear arms, as expressed in the Second Amendment, is tied to a "well regulated militia".
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		Some chroniclers make the palladium her gift; others state that during the fall of Troy Electra clung to the celebrated image.3 Yet another tradition has Electra cast down to earth from Olympus together with the palladium.4 Such traditions, in all likelihood, reflect an attempt-- only minimally successful--to distinguish between Electra and the comet-like palladium.
		As an example of the general ignorance pertaining to the prominence of the warrior-goddess in comparative mythology witness the statement of M. Nilsson, one of the greatest classical scholars: "The real war god to whom the Greek states and soldiers prayed and sacrificed is Athena.
		The fact that the aegis was said to grace the falling palladium, and that it was elsewhere reported to have spit fire, suggests the conclusion that it too is inexplicable apart from the imagery of the comet-like Venus.
	www.kronia.com /library/journals/athena.txt (7134 words)

	palladium - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Palladium, palladium : The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
		Palladium, palladium : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (Encyclopedia.com) [home, info]
		Phrases that include palladium: battle for the palladium, elkie brooks - live at the palladium, london palladium, palladium amalgam, palladium fl, more...
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	AllRefer.com - Athena (Ancient Religion) - Encyclopedia
		Athena[uthE´nu] Pronunciation Key, or Pallas Athena[pal´us] Pronunciation Key, in Greek religion and mythology, one of the most important Olympian deities.
		Her statue, the Palladium, was supposed to protect the city that possessed it.
		It was said that because she accidentally killed Pallas she set the name Pallas before her own.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Athena.html (388 words)

	Network Security from the Pros
		Palladium provides a computing platform where you can’t tamper with the applications, and where these applications can communicate securely with the vendor.
		Palladium centers around a security kernel—the nub—that executes at the highest-privilege level of the processor.
		Palladium’s changes to the CPU allow Palladium to place the CPU into a new mode where it restricts certain areas of memory via a technique called “code curtaining” to an ultra-privileged piece of code called the “nub” or Trusted Operating Root (TOR).
	www.pdaconsulting.com /pallas.htm (3417 words)

	Classical Mythology: The Final Battles: The Tenth Year of the War —
		One of the bones of Agamemnon's grandfather, Pelops, was brought to Troy.
		The Palladium, an ancient wooden statue of Athena, was stolen from the Trojan citadel called the Pergamum.
		His prayers answered, Ilus quickly placed the Palladium in the Trojan citadel, where it had protected the city from that day forward.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /cig/mythology/final-battles-tenth-year-of-war.html (1566 words)

	Mythology and History: Chapter 6
		The Palladium’s spear symbolizes the execution of the king.
		The Palladium, which the Vestal Virgins [a reduced manifestation of the college of nymphs] guarded at Rome, as the luck of the city, held immense importance for Italian mythographers; they claimed that it had been rescued from Troy by Aeneas —; again, son of Aphrodite — and brought to Italy.
		Throughout mythology, rock and stone are intimately connected not only with fire but also with rain, just as storms feature lightning (i.e.
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	Reference - Palladium Jewelry
		There is a new jewelry metal on the horizon - palladium.
		Palladium offers customers a host of benefits that white gold and platinum can't touch.
		Although it is very common for people to buy chemical silver tarnish removers and jewelers cloths to polish silver jewelry to a sparkling shine, it is possible to achieve similar results with just a few inexpensive items found in almost every kitchen....
	www.jewelry-paideia.com /reference/ref-palladium-jewelry.php (154 words)

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		It provides a complete history of Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines, from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy.
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		For hard-core mythology nuts, this is an indispensible reference: the Greek myths straight from a collector of antiquity, and our only glimpse at some important lost works.
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		In ancient Greek mythology, Palladium, a synonym of the word security, was thought to be a sacred image of Athena and kept in the Temple of Athena in Troy.
		Legend has it that the image was sent by Zeus to Dardanus, the founder of Troy, and it was believed that the city could not be taken while it possessed the "Palladium".
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	Palladium
		According to Greek mythology, the Palladium was a small wooden statue of Athena that fell from the heavens into Troy; the safety of the city of Troy depended on their keeping the statue within their walls.
		Roman tradition before Vergil wrote the Aeneid claimed that Aeneas had taken the statue and brought it with him to Italy, where it was kept in the Temple of Vesta and supposedly transferred its protection to the city of Rome.
		On her left shoulder she holds the Palladium, the city- protecting wooden statue of Athena.
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	Greek and Roman Mythology — FactMonster.com
		Sacred shield that fell from heavens; palladium of Rome.
		Daughter of Cepheus; chained to cliff for monster to devour; rescued by Perseus.
		Morpheus - Morpheus Morpheus, in Greek and Roman mythology, god of dreams.
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	Bulfinch Mythology Chapter 28 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was said to have fallen from heaven, and the belief was that the city could not be taken so long as this statue remained within it.
		On the fall of Troy Menelaus recovered possession of his wife, who had not ceased to love him, though she had yielded to the might of Venus and deserted him for another.
		After the death of Paris she aided the Greeks secretly on several occasions, and in particular when Ulysses and Diomed entered the city in disguise to carry off the Palladium.
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