Platinum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Platinum (pronounced /ˈplætɨnəm/ ) is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto , which i...
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Sources, properties, and uses. ... The price of platinum has varied widely. More than a century ago platinum was used to adulterate gold and was worth nearly eight times more than gold in 1920. The price in January 1990 was about $500/troy oz.
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periodic.lanl.gov/elements/78.html
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Platinum is used in jewelry, laboratory equipment, electrical contacts, dentistry
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The picture on the front shows a platinum wedding band. ... Platinum is used for: ... - used for making jewelry; - used for making chains on necklaces; - used for wedding bands; - used for protective coats on the nose cones of missiles; - used for coats on edges of a razor blades...
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Vitamins are the building blocks of the body. They are used to prevent or treat a vitamin deficiency due to poor nutrition, certain illnesses or during pregnancy.
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Platinum used in pancreatic cancer treatment 27th March 2006 ... A platinum-based drug for the treatment of pancreatic cancer has shown encouraging results in trials in Italy. Researchers found that the use of Tomudex (raltitrexed) and Eloxatin (oxaliplatin) yielded results in half of those patients who had failed to...
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Platinum used in nanotechnology race 8th July 2003 ... Researchers at the University of Louisville and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have used tiny platinum wires to make nano tubes only a twentieth larger than a blood vessel, which could be used in complex retinal surgery, and all manner of other scientific,
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I’m talking platinum. As in catalytic converters. Cars, trucks, earth movers, fork-lifts, nearly every internal combustion engine made in the past thirty years has a catalytic converter. Most contain platinum and rhodium as catalysts.
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blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=833
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When I originally blogged the platinum price climb, I noted platinum’s used in catalytic converters for internal combustion engines, thus reducing emissions. While there were once stories of iPods being stolen, or laptops, the hot new hot items on the hot sheet: catalytic converters.
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blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=849
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