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Platinum plays a huge role in modern industry - notably in electrochemical and catalytic systems: this article reviews the origins, uses, and detection methods available
Platinum plays a huge role in modern industry - notably in electrochemical and catalytic systems, and is currently being used in fuel and electrolytic cells, pharmaceutical production, petro-chemistry, laboratory equipment, electrical contacts, dentistry and anti-pollution devices in the automotive and water-treatment sectors, as well as surgical and astronomical devices.
Naturally-occurring platinum and platinum-rich alloys have been known for a long time and although the metal was used by pre-Columbian Indians, the first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 in the writings of the Italian humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger as a mysterious metal found in Central American mines between Panama and Mexico "up until now impossible to melt by any of the Spanish arts".
Platinum was discovered by the Spanish astronomer Antonio de Ulloa in 1735 as platina ("little silver") del pinto, the unworkable metal found with gold in Columbia, it was also regarded as an impurity in the silver being mined and was often discarded.
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