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Bullion is gold bars, silver bars, and other bars or ingots of precious metal.

The word bullion comes from the French Minister of Finance under Louis XIII, Claude de Bullion.

Palladium is a chemical element with symbol Pd and atomic number 46.

It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston.

He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas.

Palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium form a group of elements referred to as the platinum group metals (PGMs).

These have similar chemical properties, but palladium has the lowest melting point and is the least dense of them.

A precious metal is a rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical element of high economic value.

Chemically, the precious metals tend to be less reactive than most elements (see noble metal).

They are usually ductile and have a high lustre.

Historically, precious metals were important as currency but are now regarded mainly as investment and industrial commodities.

Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium each have an ISO 4217 currency code.

In ordinary usage, price is the quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for goods or services.

Silver is a metallic element with symbol Ag and atomic number 47.

The symbol Ag stems from Latin, derived from the Greek ὰργὀς (literally "shiny" or "white"), and ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European language root reconstructed as *h2erǵ-, "grey" or "shining".

A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal.

The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

Most silver is produced as a byproduct of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining.

Silver is more abundant than gold, but it is much less abundant as a native metal.

Its purity is typically measured on a per mille basis; a 94%-pure alloy is described as "0.940 fine".