Platin

Platinum is a heavy, forgeable, flexible, noble, grey-white transition metal. Platinum is very corrosion resistant and for the production of jewellery goods, laboratory instruments, tooth implants, contact materials and catalysts is used.

History

Platinum was already used before the discovery America by

Kolumbus by the Indians of South America. The name is derived from

the Spanish word platina, the small form from plata "silver".

The first European reference comes from the Italian human

Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558). It describes a

mysterioeses white metal, which extracted itself from all fusion

attempts. A description in more detail of the characteristics is in to

1748 there a published report of Antonio Ulloa.