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Palladium alloy

An alloy of palladium and gold or silver, and sometimes, to provide hardness, with ruthenium, for making certain objects of jewelry. There are no legal standards for its quality.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson