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Rhodium is a very common plating for inexpensive jewelry, because it is extremely shiny and tarnish resistant. It's actually a very expensive metal, but you only need a microscopically thin layer to make something look beautiful, so it can be used for even very inexpensive items.
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Rhodium plated Ring with Tanzanite.
Ed got this from eBay. Maybe some day he'll get a solid rhodium ring, but he probably won't donate it to my table.
Source: MrValue Jewelry
Contributor: Ed Pegg Jr
Acquired: 20 July, 2002
Price: $10
Size: 0.75"
Purity: >90%
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1cm wire.
A very small sample indeed, but since it's from David Franco, it is of course of the highest purity.
Source: David Franco
Contributor: Ed Pegg Jr
Acquired: 16 August, 2002
Price: $1
Size: 0.4"
Purity: 99.9%
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Sample from the Everest Element Set.
Up until the early 1990's a company in Russia sold a periodic table collection with element samples. At some point their American distributor sold off the remaining stock to a man who is now selling them on eBay. The samples (excepted gasses) weight about 0.25 grams each, and the whole set comes in a very nice wooden box with a printed periodic table in the lid.
To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description and information about how to buy one, or you can see photographs of all the samples from the set displayed on my website in a periodic table layout or with bigger pictures in numerical order.
Source: Rob Accurso
Contributor: Rob Accurso
Acquired: 7 February, 2003
Price: Donated
Size: 0.2"
Purity: >99%
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