A metal sponge! Palladium meets Hydrogen
Palladium soaks up hydrogen like a sponge soaks up water. The tiny hydrogen atoms slip in between the palladium atoms.
The result
- What it makes
- Palladium hydride
- Equation
- 2Pd + H₂ → 2PdH
- When it happens
- At room temperature
Fun fact from Fizzy: Palladium can soak up about 900 times its own volume of hydrogen gas!