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the metal so rare all of it ever mined would fit in your living room
means A dense, silvery-white precious metal prized for being rare, corrosion-resistant, and chemically unreactive, used in jewelry, catalysts, and as a benchmark for high quality.
from From Spanish 'platina,' a diminutive of 'plata' (silver) — literally 'little silver.' When 16th-century Spanish conquistadors found grains of it in South American rivers, they dismissed it as an inferior, annoying impurity clogging their gold mining, hence the slightly contemptuous 'just some little silver.' The metal had its revenge: it's now far more valuable than the silver it was named after.
- melting point
- endures over 1768 degrees Celsius before liquefying
- in your car
- catalytic converters scrub your exhaust with it
- chemo agent
- cisplatin fights cancer using platinum atoms
- density flex
- a cubic foot weighs over 1300 pounds
- barely reacts
- shrugs off acids that dissolve gold