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  2. Platinum - Wikipedia

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    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 Spanish platina, a diminutive of plata "silver". [7] [8] Platinum is a member of the platinum group of elements and group 10 of the periodic table of ...

  3. Melting points of the elements (data page) - Wikipedia

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    The Gmelin rare earths handbook lists 1522 °C and 1550 °C as two melting points given in the literature, the most recent reference [Handbook on the chemistry and physics of rare earths, vol.12 (1989)] is given with 1529 °C.

  4. Boiling points of the elements (data page) - Wikipedia

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    78 Pt platinum; use: 4098 K: 3825 °C: 6917 °F WebEl: 4098 K: 3825 °C: 6917 °F CRC: 3825 °C: Lange: 3824 °C: Zhang et al. ... Melting points of the elements ...

  5. Melting point - Wikipedia

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    The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends on pressure and is usually specified at a standard pressure such as 1 atmosphere or 100 kPa.

  6. Heats of fusion of the elements (data page) - Wikipedia

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    J.A. Dean (ed), Lange's Handbook of Chemistry (15th Edition), McGraw-Hill, 1999; Section 6, Thermodynamic Properties; Table 6.4, Heats of Fusion, Vaporization, and Sublimation and Specific Heat at Various Temperatures of the Elements and Inorganic Compounds

  7. Platinum group - Wikipedia

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    The platinum-group metals (PGMs), also known as the platinoids, platinides, platidises, platinum group, platinum metals, platinum family or platinum-group elements (PGEs), are six noble, precious metallic elements clustered together in the periodic table. These elements are all transition metals in the d-block (groups 8, 9, and 10, periods 5 ...

  8. Melting temperature - Wikipedia

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    Melting temperature may refer to: Melting point, the temperature at which a substance changes from solid to liquid state; Melting temperature, the temperature at ...

  9. Refractory metals - Wikipedia

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    Refractory metals have high melting points, with tungsten and rhenium the highest of all elements, and the other's melting points only exceeded by osmium and iridium, and the sublimation of carbon. These high melting points define most of their applications. All the metals are body-centered cubic except rhenium which is hexagonal close-packed.