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1887
Volume 24, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0032-1400

Abstract

Two major contributions to the discovery of platinum and its identification as a distinct metal were made by Swedish chemists during a short span of years in the eighteenth century when chemistry and metallurgy were flourishing and when several other new elements were isolated and their properties determined.

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