Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. metal
8. [metal by form]
9. leaf (metal)

Anotations

Scope note:

A thin, beaten leaf used in gilding for a silvery effect. It is often used as a replacement for silver leaf because palladium, a precious metal that is part of the platinum group of elements, does not tarnish at normal temperatures. Palladium leaf is slightly duller in appearance than silver leaf.