rhodium

Updated: July 9, 2025

For ordinary use, a mixture of Assafoetida, Musk, Oil of Anise, and Fish Oil, together with a few drops of the Oil of Rhodium, is especially recommended by our most skilled trappers. This preparation contains the various substances which are known to attract the different fur bearing animals, and its use often insures success where anyone of the simple substances would be ineffectual.

W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson - Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

for enticing Rats out of their holes. I hope none of my readers will be attracted with this device. I hold that there is nothing that will tempt a Rat from its hole like hunger. The nearest approach that I have found to entice the Rodent out of its hole is oil of aniseed or oil of rhodium, but the latter is expensive.

Ike Matthews - Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher: After 25 Years' Experience

Of course, each fraction will probably be an alloy of one kind or another, but I think maybe I'll be able to make them do." "But mayn't that whole chunk be a pure metal?" "It's conceivable, but not probable. There, she's beginning to separate at just below eighteen hundred! Platinum group coming out now, I think platinum, rhodium, iridium, and that gang, you know.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Spacehounds of IPC

Take sulphur vive in powder, half an ounce, oil of tartar per deliquim, a sufficient quantity, ointment of roses, four ounces; make a liniment, to which add a scruple of rhodium to aromatize, and rub the parts affected with it. For Running Scab.

Aristotle - The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher : Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy