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oa The Platinum Decathlon – A Tribute to the Foresight of Antoine Baumé
“So many excellent properties united in a single metal make it desirable that it should be introduced into commerce”, Antoine Baumé – “Chymie Experimentale et Raisonnée” (1773)
- Source: Platinum Metals Review, Volume 56, Issue 3, Aug 2012, p. 165 - 176
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- 01 Jan 2012
Abstract
Ten application areas and ten properties of platinum (or its alloys) are selected here to represent a “platinum decathlon”. Platinum has a unique combination of properties which make it eminently suitable for many applications from jewellery to anticancer drugs, from high-temperature engineering to a range of catalytic applications. The 18th century French chemist Antoine Baumé foresaw the desirability of platinum’s use in industry and its use today in many essential areas bears this out.
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