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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_152998" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_152998" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_54139" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_54139" /> == | ||
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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_77890" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_77890" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A statue of Pallas in Troy, on the preservation of which depended the safety of the city, and from the date of the abstraction of which by Ulysses and [[Diomedes]] the fate of it was doomed; it was fabled to have fallen from heaven upon the plain of Troy, and to have after its abstraction been transferred to [[Athens]] and Argos; it is now applied to any safeguard of the liberty of a State. </p> | ||
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