Palladium is similar to platinum and nothing like titanium. It is also the metal you need if you are going to experiment with cold fusion. This is "500 grade", which means it is 50% palladium, and the weight on the Argos site is given incorrectly as "Guaranteed weight 4oz." Maybe they mean 0.4 ounces, but that seems too high as well. 4 grams is more likely.

There is another palladium ring marked down that claims to be "Guaranteed weight 6oz". That weight of Palladium (even 50% palladium) is worth about £1000. 6 grams of 50% palladium would be about one tenth of an ounce (Troy) of pure metal worth about £35.

Learning the difference between knew and new would be a good start to your learning experience :smiley:

Depends on the measure - Mohs scale Palladium is around 10% harder, so will resist scratches better, Vickers scale, Platinum is harder, more resistant to impact damage. For scratches at least, pretty much every object/material you'd come across on a daily basis that would scratch a Platinum ring while wearing it would also scratch a Palladium one.

Palladium will tarnish over time, Platinum will not (the oxide is colourless), nothing that a polish-up wouldn't sort every 5 years or so.

Choosing Palladium or Platinum comes down to cost generally, they are from the same family of inert/noble metals, look similar, but Palladium is a lot lighter. Whichever you choose, i'd go for a brushed effect so the scratches you'll inevitably pick up won't be too noticeable.

This "500" grade Palladium ring is only 50% Palladium, most Platinum rings are 95% Platinum.

Good metal for Fella's. Harder than Platinum I believe.

juat a word of warning if your not too fammiler with the matrial do your reaserch me and my husband were talked into buying titanium wedding rings and they would "stay shiny and never scrach" after less than a year they were a dull darker thank gun metal coulor and have more scraches and scuffs on them than any other jewrey i own

6 oz - most knuckledusters probably don't weigh that. My 6mm Platinum wedding ring (tubular, not tapered - as thick at the edges as it is in the middle) is quite thick , Z1 in size and only weighs a smidge under 14g. 6g (assuming it is alloyed with something no heavier than Palladium) seems very feasible, 0.4 (12.4g) Troy Oz total ring weight would imply to me that the ring was alloyed with something to make it a similar density to Platinum (maybe Tungsten), maybe more, as the picture of the Argos ring makes it look much thinner than mine.

If your a goldigga, make sure you get a Polonium ring .:smirk: You'll soon get your inheritance.

Palladium isn't that the stuff Ironman uses :man:

Isnt palladium the stuff they pumped into wolverine

"D - shaped"

Looks nothing like a ****.

I have a palladium wedding ring and would recommend them any day over titanium