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1887
Volume 48, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0032-1400

Abstract

This paper follows an earlier one on the discoveries of rhodium and palladium in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston (1). In 1804, two more of the platinum metals: iridium and osmium were discovered, also in London. This paper concerns the bicentenary of their discovery by Wollaston’s friend and collaborator, Smithson Tennant.

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