Rhodium prices down over 94% in 5 months

[ASH]

Re: New industrial metals

Exactly.

Now, anyone got some data on what the price of Indium is doing? You can't eat that either, by the way. But it is used for making LEDs which will replace incandescent bulbs.

Hmmm... it probably matters which LEDs, and how much.

The inorganic LEDs presently used for lighting applications are largely made from gallium nitride (GaN). Emission from GaN is in the ultraviolet, and a phosphor coating is used to down-convert to white light, similar to a fluorescent lamp. Inclusion of indium in the alloy (InGaN) will shift the LED's emission from ultraviolet to longer wavelengths (redder light), and I gather that blue InGaN LEDs are more commonly used to pump the phosphors in a white light than pure GaN. Even so, the relative fraction of indium to gallium is probably under 20% or so.

The bigger question I have is whether organic LEDs are going to take over in lighting applications, and how soon. No indium (or gallium) there.

[sgominator]

Re: Rhodium prices down over 94% in 5 months

rhodium is used to make fuelcell membranes = FUTURE?
Pietro

Further note:
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2005117171

The ruthenium-rhodium alloy catalyst [...] can be used as high-quality and high-efficiency electrode catalyst having improved catalytic availability and stability.

Different fuel-cell technolgies exist, and maybe the rhodium type will not become mainstream.
But i foresee which users may be both early adopters and requiring higher specs.

The Military.

http://www.marinetalk.com/articles-m...0990701TU.html

Save the environment while you kill you brother :eek:

Pietro

[blazespinnaker]

Re: Rhodium prices down over 94% in 5 months

and

http://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml



Can you eat Rhodium?

The vast majority of gold is taking up space inside vaults/burried in the ground doing nothing for nobody.

[Starving Steve]

Re: Rhodium prices down over 94% in 5 months

and

http://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml



Can you eat Rhodium?

I heard that you can actually eat gold leaf. Is that true? And even if it is true, why eat it?

If the rich are so rich that they sit on their duffs and eat gold foil to show their friends how rich they are, shouldn't the governments of the world increase the taxes on the rich? This would put a stop to filthy habits like eating gold foil.:rolleyes:

[DToM67]

Re: Rhodium prices down over 94% in 5 months

I heard that you can actually eat gold leaf. Is that true? And even if it is true, why eat it?

Never understood this desire myself. Products like Goldschläger boggle the mind.

[DemonD]

Re: Rhodium prices down over 94% in 5 months

I heard that you can actually eat gold leaf. Is that true? And even if it is true, why eat it?

If the rich are so rich that they sit on their duffs and eat gold foil to show their friends how rich they are, shouldn't the governments of the world increase the taxes on the rich? This would put a stop to filthy habits like eating gold foil.:rolleyes:

The only reason to eat gold that I know of is as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

As far as your snarky remark regarding the rich, when Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt (the google guys), Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and a whole host of CEO's are paying 15% on their yearly total income, while their secretaries and engineers and labor force are paying 35-40% income tax, that is just not damn fair. Governments should be finding a way to make sure the rich are paying their fair share while they try as hard as possible to give tax cuts to the middle classes (with more disposable income this would be be far greater a boon to the economy than if buffett made only 800 million this year instead of 1 billion. The guy drives a Lincoln for chrissakes. He's not going to put an extra dime into the economy no matter how much he makes.)

Sorry for the off-topic rant it just kills me when people get rude towards those who are for fair taxation.

[Guest]

Re: Rhodium prices down over 94% in 5 months

Salve Pietro -

Saluti da un'altro Italiano.

And my contribution to the "Rhodium price - is it a bargain now?? :eek: " debate:

RHODIUM - AVG ANNUAL PRICE SINCE 1959.jpg

BTW - you can indeed buy Rhodium metal. Just get off your duffs and research it for ten minutes and you'll find two dozen metal dealers from whom you can purchase it. I would only surmise the salient point in terms of investment is to properly assess it's **volatility**. That it's cheap at today's prices is beyond question. To the best of my understanding this is a NOMINAL price chart - I believe the recent 2008 price is right in the 600-700 range?