How to Use palladium in a Sentence

palladium

noun
  • Compared to gold, platinum, and palladium, silver must be the purest of them all.
    — Regal Assets, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Silver, platinum, and palladium have notched even bigger year-to-date gains.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Gold Alliance deals not just with gold and silver but also with platinum and palladium.
    — Dallas News, 26 June 2022
  • Many metals—aluminum, copper, nickel and palladium—hit new highs as well.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But what about the mines that produced the tantalum or palladium in your transistors?
    — WIRED, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The selloff hit copper and palladium, joining gold and silver, which have fallen since the war began.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Each enamel layer is hand-fired, and the entire piece is cast in 18-karat palladium white gold with black dorure beneath the stones.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The gains have lifted the precious-metals complex from platinum to palladium, and even base metals.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Are platinum and palladium good long-term investments?
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Prices of other key raw materials like steel and palladium have also been rising.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Most drivers never think about palladium.
    — Matt Emma, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This would still be zero for uranium, rhodium, palladium, silver bullion and king crabs.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The rise in palladium prices will increase car theft of catalytic converters and drive a surge in demand in the market for guards to protect cars from theft.
    — Lora Cecere, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • The show includes platinum palladium prints, some in a special large format, as well as rare vintage silver gelatin photographs that are not for sale.
    — Christian House, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Nickel prices were little changed in London while spot palladium traded more than 5% lower.
    — Fortune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The metals, including rhodium and palladium, are bringing big money on the black market.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2021
  • The 18k gold alloy, a combination of gold and palladium, looks gray or rose depending on the angle of the light.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Both metals have experienced significant price swings, but palladium has been far more volatile.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Russia’s output of palladium, which is used in devices that limit emissions from cars, is said to account for about a quarter of global supply.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Many of those challenges are even greater for EVs, which are more dependent on elements like neon, nickel and palladium.
    — Karl Brauer, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Now, palladium in a jar connected to nuclear fusion is being revived but in a different guise.
    — New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Last week, Russia’s Sberbank said that demand for metals like gold and palladium has quadrupled since the war began.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • As a result, platinum and palladium prices may fall during recessions, while gold often rises as investors seek safety.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Like most of the companies on this list, Noble Gold sells gold, silver, platinum, and palladium products.
    — Dallas News, 26 June 2022
  • Common metals that make up cell phones such as copper, silver, gold and palladium can also be reused in other electrical appliances.
    — Carl Hung, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • Converters are a target of robberies as these contain valuable metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2022
  • Is platinum rarer than palladium?
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Miner and bank stocks have been central to the rally, with the materials subindex doubling on the back of rallies in gold, silver, copper and palladium.
    — Stephanie Hughes, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The price of palladium, which is used to make catalytic converters, is up more than 60 percent this year for automobiles.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Or they may be broken open, and the metallic honeycombs mined for platinum, palladium and rhodium—precious metals that can be sold on the secondary market.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023

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