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platina
[ plat-n-uh, pluh-tee-nuh ]
noun
- a native alloy of platinum with palladium, iridium, osmium, etc.
platina
/ pləˈtiːnə; ˈplætɪnə /
noun
- an alloy of platinum and several other metals, including palladium, osmium, and iridium
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of platina1
C18: from Spanish: silvery element, from plata silver, from Provençal: silver plate
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Example Sentences
An exceedingly few rays of the sun, concentrated by a burning mirror, will convert gold and platina into vapor.
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Nitrous acid dissolves all metallic substances except gold and platina, and in the solution nitrous air is produced.
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Neither this acid nor the nitrous will dissolve gold or platina; but a mixture of them, called aqua regia, will do it.
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Pure platina is the heaviest body in nature, its specific gravity exceeding twenty-two.
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Also most of the metals precipitate platina, but not in its metallic state.
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