Platinum is a chemical element; it has symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name originates from Spanis
Platinum being dissolved in hot aqua regia
A native platinum nugget, Kondyor mine, Khabarovsk Krai
Platinum-palladium ore, Stillwater mine, Beartooth Mountains, Montana, US
Group 10, numbered by current IUPAC style, is the group of chemical elements in the periodic table that consists of nickel, palladium, platinum, and darmstadtium. All are d-block transition metals. Al