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What is Platinum?

What is Platinum?. By Chase Murphy. What Are Elements?. Definition: Specific type of atom I will be presenting the structure, history, and importance of platinum . Platinum’s Atom. electrons. P=78 N=117. shells. What is the S tructure of Platinum?.

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What is Platinum?

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  1. What is Platinum? By Chase Murphy

  2. What Are Elements? • Definition: Specific type of atom • I will be presenting the structure, history, and importance of platinum.

  3. Platinum’s Atom electrons P=78 N=117 shells

  4. What is the Structure of Platinum? • Description - silvery, glass-like metal • Number of protons and electrons - 78 • Number of neutrons - 117 • Atomic weight -195 • Atomic number -78 • Symbol- Pt

  5. What is the History of Platinum? • Discovered by miners in 1500’s - thought it was worthless • 1557- Julius Scaliger described it • 1748 - Antonio de Ulloa named Platinum “Platina”- little silver in Spanish

  6. Why is Platinum Important? • Uses - expensive jewelry, containers for chemical experiments, automobiles, experiment containers because of it’s high melting point

  7. Interesting Facts Platinum pan • Platinum is very dense • Cubic ft. of platinum - more than 1,300 lbs. • Platinum found usually in form of nuggets, grains • Two large producers of Platinum- Russia, South Africa • Produced sometimes by- Eastern United States, Columbia, Japan, Canada • Platinum is sometimes found combined with other elements

  8. Conclusion • Over the weeks, I have learned a lot about the element called platinum… • I think one of the most awesome things about this metal is that it is often found mashed together with other elements and metals! • I also think it is interesting that it was called rock by miners because platinum rocks found in mines sometimes look like any other rock

  9. Works Consulted "A Periodic Table of the Elements at Los Alamos National Laboratory." Web. 10 Dec. 2010. “Elements." Chemical Elements.com - An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. "Elements." Current Science. POWER Library. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. "It's Elemental - The Periodic Table of Elements." Science Education at Jefferson Lab. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. Knapp, Brian J., David Woodroffe, and David A. Hardy. Elements. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 2000. Print. "Periodic Table - Chart of All Chemical Elements." Lenntech. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. “WebElements.” Periodic Table of the Elements. Web. 10 Dec. 2010.

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