Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Platinum, especially as found naturally in impure form.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
platinum : the older name. - noun Twisted silver wire.
- noun An iron plate for glazing stuff.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Platinum.
- noun platinum black.
- noun a pigment prepared from platinum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry, obsolete
platinum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The platina is shorter than the zincs, to prevent its reaching the quicksilver in the bottom of the cell; and the wax balls on its sides are to insulate it from the zinc plates.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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In a letter to Mr. Hopkinson, I mentioned to him that the Abbe Rochon, who discovered the double refracting power in some of the natural crystals, had lately made a telescope with the metal called platina, which, while it is as susceptible of as perfect a polish as the metal heretofore used for the specula of telescopes, is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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You have heard often of the metal called platina, to be found only in South America.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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You have heard often of the metal called platina, to be found only in
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Abbe Rochon, who discovered the double refracting power in some of the natural crystals, had lately made a telescope with the metal called platina, which, while it is as susceptible of as perfect a polish as the metal heretofore used for the specula of telescopes, is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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An Abbé Rochon has applied the metal called platina to the telescope instead of the mixed metal of which the specula were formerly composed.
Letters 1760
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Branco is so called because the gold found there was mixed with platina.
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Considerable works are necessary — a special set of tools, an apparatus of platina, leaden chambers, unassailable by the acid, and in which the transformation is performed, etc. The engineer had none of these at his disposal, but he knew that, in
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Considerable works are necessary — a special set of tools, an apparatus of platina, leaden chambers, unassailable by the acid, and in which the transformation is performed, etc. The engineer had none of these at his disposal, but he knew that, in
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Marble quarries, mines of salt, platina, gold, and coal are worked here on a large scale.
Michael Strogoff 2003
chained_bear commented on the word platina
"'Pratt... caused your chests to be repacked in large cases marked Double-Refined Platina and removed to a lead, brass, and copper warehouse on the river, by Irongate Stairs...'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 127
March 17, 2008