• The platinum-group metals (PGMs), also known as the platinoids, platinides, platidises, platinum group, platinum metals, platinum family or platinum-group...
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    Spanish platina, a diminutive of plata "silver". Platinum is a member of the platinum group of elements and group 10 of the periodic table of elements. It has...
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  • gaining access to their victims' computers, the group steals economically sensitive information. PLATINUM succeeded in keeping a low profile until their...
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    and zinc, as well as the gold group (gold, copper, lead, aluminium, mercury, silver) and the platinum group (platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium...
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    Osmium (category Platinum-group metals)
    bluish-white transition metal in the platinum group that is found as a trace element in alloys, mostly in platinum ores. Osmium is the densest naturally...
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    Rhodium (category Platinum-group metals)
    corrosion-resistant transition metal. It is a noble metal and a member of the platinum group. It has only one naturally occurring isotope, which is 103Rh. Naturally...
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    Iridium (category Platinum-group metals)
    number 77. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group, it is considered the second-densest naturally occurring metal (after...
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    Platinum prints, also called platinotypes, are photographic prints made by a monochrome printing process involving platinum. Platinum tones range from...
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    corrosion and is usually found in nature in its raw form. Gold, platinum, and the other platinum group metals (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium)...
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  • owns several companies which operate mines that produce platinum and platinum group metals, as well as nickel, copper and cobalt. Its most significant mine...
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    precious metals include the platinum group metals: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, of which platinum is the most widely traded...
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    Palladium (category Platinum-group metals)
    slew Pallas. Palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium form a group of elements referred to as the platinum group metals (PGMs). They have...
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  • titaniferous magnetite and platinum group metals. In 1995, the company Johannesburg Consolidated Investments unbundled. Its platinum interests became Amplats...
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    precious metals include the platinum group metals: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, of which platinum is the most widely traded...
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    certification categories, which are named after precious materials (gold, platinum and diamond). The threshold required for these awards depends upon the...
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    on the base of the vessel. Dissolution of platinum by aqua regia. As a practical matter, when platinum group metals are purified through dissolution in...
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    accessed 2 September 2016. International Platinum Group Metals Association n.d., The Primary Production of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), accessed 4 September...
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    list of countries by platinum production. It is based on information from the United States Geological Survey. "Platinum-Group Metals Statistics and...
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    Ruthenium (category Platinum-group metals)
    transition metal belonging to the platinum group of the periodic table. Like the other metals of the platinum group, ruthenium is inert to most other...
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  • Platinum and platinum group metals are produced in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Of the multitudes of companies involved in producing platinum group metals...
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    are also sets of elements named "group" that are not a column: Platinum group Iron group Similar sets: noble metals, coinage metals, precious metals, refractory...
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    contains the world's largest reserves of platinum-group metals (PGMs) or platinum group elements (PGEs)—platinum, palladium, osmium, iridium, rhodium, and...
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  • refer to: Platinum, Alaska, a city The Platinum, a condo hotel near the Las Vegas Strip Platinum, one of the Metal Men, a comic book superhero group Star Platinum...
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    elements in the periodic table that consists of nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), and darmstadtium (Ds). All are d-block transition metals. All known...
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    Platinum–iridium alloys are alloys of the platinum group precious metals platinum and iridium. Typical alloy proportions are 90:10 or 70:30 (Pt:Ir). These...
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    complexes are for Cr(III), Co(III), Ni(II), Cu(II) as well as several platinum group metals. Ammine complexes played a major role in the development of coordination...
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    Darmstadtium (redirect from Eka-Platinum)
    the group 10 elements, although no chemical experiments have yet been carried out to confirm that it behaves as the heavier homologue to platinum in group...
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    Platinum as an investment is often compared in financial history to gold and silver, which were both known to be used as money in ancient civilizations...
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  • Platinum Equity, LLC is an American private equity investment firm founded by Tom Gores in 1995, headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. The firm focuses...
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  • world reserves for bauxite, cobalt, industrial diamond, phosphate rock, platinum-group metals (PGM), vermiculite, and zirconium. The Central African Mining...
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