Saving the best myth for last, whenever someone tells us that palladium is an inexpensive alternative to platinum, we remind them that palladium is rarer than gold and a member in full standing of the platinum family. Like platinum, it offers higher purity and whiter color than white gold. Last, it is nickel free and hypo-allergenic, needs no transitory rhodium plating to give it the final color, and can be cast and soldered. If anything, it’s the only answer to the dilemma of white gold for those who can only afford gold. So it would be more accurate to call palladium the “rich man’s white gold.”

-Palladium Myths
Courtesy of Hoover & Strong

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