see: A Chemist Comes Very Close to a Midas Touch: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/science/modern-day-alchemy-has-iron-working-like-platinum.html?pagewanted=all
If confirmed, reconfirmed, extended, deepened and trivialized- it will be really useful. Palladium not mentioned (?) for time given. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
