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103 Ru has a half-life of about 39 days meaning that within 390 days it will have effectively decayed to the only stable isotope of rhodium, 103 Rh, well before any reprocessing is likely to occur. 106 Ru has a half-life of about 373 days, meaning that if the fuel is left to cool for 5 years before reprocessing only about 3% of the original ...
Platinum is traded in the spot market with the code "XPT". When settled in United States dollars, the code is "XPTUSD". As the cost of platinum per ounce fell, the cost per ounce for other metals in the platinum group - especially palladium - rose strongly. As of November 2022, palladium sits at around US$1900 per ounce, compared to US$980 for ...
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 ...
Platinum prices are stable year to date but have risen 14% over the past year. Costco is diversifying its precious-metals business by selling 1-ounce bars of platinum for $1,090.
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Naturally occurring platinum and platinum-rich alloys were known by pre-Columbian Americans for many years. [5] However, even though the metal was used by pre-Columbian peoples, the first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 in the writings of the Italian humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558) as a description of a mysterious metal found in Central American mines between ...
The Basics of Losing Weight After 40. Losing weight can be challenging at the best of times. But after the big 4-0, a few more challenges pop up, making weight gain common and weight loss harder.