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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. Metal Men - Wikipedia

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    Platinum was created to disguise herself as Will Magnus' wife Tina, Tin serves as Will's butler, and three unnamed Metal Men were designed to mimic the powers of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman to frame them for murder so that Magnus could gain access to their technology.

  4. Platinum group - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. List of Metal Men members - Wikipedia

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    Both Tin and the Platinum Man were left with their robot hearts broken. Cobalt Metal Men #31 (May 1968) Will Magnus created the Second Metal Men with the following analogues: Cobalt is the strong counterpart to Iron; Gallium is a temperamental liquid, similar to Mercury; Iridia (Short for Iridium) is a beautiful and rare metal, like Platinum

  6. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    A small box from the burial of the Pharaoh Shepenupet II (died around 650 BC) was found to be decorated with gold-platinum hieroglyphics, [36] but the Egyptians may not have recognised that there was platinum in their gold. [37] [38] First European description of a metal found in South American gold was in 1557 by Julius Caesar Scaliger.

  7. William Brownrigg - Wikipedia

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    He was born at High Close Hall near Plumbland, [2] the son of local gentry, George Brownrigg. William's mother, Mary Brownrigg, was from Ireland. William was educated in Latin and Greek by a local clergyman from the age of 13 and by the age of 15 was an apprentice to an apothecary in Carlisle.

  8. History of the metre - Wikipedia

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    A wrought iron ruler, the Toise of Peru, also called Toise de l'Académie, was the French primary standard of the toise, and the metre was officially defined by an artifact made of platinum kept in the National Archives. Besides the latter, another platinum and twelve iron standards of the metre were made by Étienne Lenoir in 1799.

  9. PlatinumGames - Wikipedia

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    Each was released in 2009. All the intellectual properties created by PlatinumGames as part of the partnership are owned by Sega. [11] MadWorld was the first game to be released. Produced by Inaba, the game was designed to appeal to a western audience and had a unique art style inspired by that of Sin City.