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One of the noble metals
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platinum
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Platinum \Plat"i*num\, n. [NL., fr. Sp. platina, from plata silver, LL. plata a thin plate of metal. See Plate , and cf. Platina .] (Chem.) A metallic element of atomic number 78, one of the noble metals, classed with silver and gold as a precious metal, ...
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Platinum is the fifth studio album by American country recording artist Miranda Lambert , released on June 3, 2014, by RCA Nashville . Lambert wrote or co-wrote eight of the album's 16 tracks while working with a host of session musicians and songwriters, ...
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n. a heavy precious metallic element; gray-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits [syn: Pt , atomic number 78 ]
Usage examples of platinum.
Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc and Cadmium, Mercury, Tin, Lead, Bismuth, Antimony, Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Uranium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, the Platinum Group.
The prince had strange, mismatched eyes and platinum hair that harkened back to what his father might have looked like in youth.
In addition, Barvale had imported platinum valued at a quarter million, from Colombia, only to reship it to Europe at a small profit.
Fedrik Spens loosened the neck cord of his heavy white toga and reached for the threadlike platinum chain of his tiny adjuster key.
Thus gold, diamonds, platinum, titanium, tantalite, copper, iron ore, uranium and 52 other metals and minerals, many of them of absolutely vital strategic value to United States, passed into the hands of the Committee of 300.
Concentrated solutions of potassium salts give a yellow crystalline precipitate with platinum chloride, and a white crystalline one with the acid tartrate of soda.
With the tongs, the Thaumaturge placed the three Great Stones in their velvet nests within the platinum box.
The Icefalcon, his white hair unbraided and hanging in a sheet of liquid platinum past his waist, was keeping a pot of water from boiling by watching it impatiently.
In it was the bulk of the missing Withers jewelry, the stones unset, pried from their gold and platinum settings.
Evidently, somewhere near Aberdeen there is at least one mine from which platinum is extracted.
Jude was tearing through a small army of urban warriors, the amoeboid thing lairing beneath the Platinum Palace divided its vast pool of flesh into its separate human components again.
Solenoid relays would be her ganglia, servo-actuators move her flawless nylon limbs, hydraulic fluid be sent by a platinum heart-pump through butyrate veins and arteries.
The most important ingredient of the three was cisplatin, which is actually platinum, and its use against testicular cancer had been pioneered by a man named Dr.
Gordon lit another Platinum Select and sat back in his chair, wondering what the hell the fragger was up to.
There are no surface traces of any kind, either for platinum itself or for metallogenic indicators.