-- card: 34765 from stack: in -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 14320 -- name: Pt -- part contents for background part 14 ----- text ----- Pt -- part contents for background part 22 ----- text ----- Platinum -- part contents for background part 15 ----- text ----- 78 -- part contents for background part 17 ----- text ----- 195.08 -- part contents for background part 18 ----- text ----- 21.45 -- part contents for background part 19 ----- text ----- 1772 -- part contents for background part 20 ----- text ----- 3827 -- part contents for background part 21 ----- text ----- +1,+2,+3,+4 -- part contents for background part 16 ----- text ----- (Spanish. platina, silver) Discovered in South America by Ulloa in 1735 and Wood in 1741. Pre-Columbian Indians used platinum. Found in sperrylite and with small quantities of iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium in deposits in Columbia, the US, Ontario and the Ural mountains (USSR). -- part contents for background part 23 ----- text ----- silvery-white, transition metal, malleable, ductile, does not oxidize in air, corroded by halogens, cyanides, sulfur and alkalis, expensive -- part contents for background part 24 ----- text ----- sealed electrodes in glass systems, jewelry, wire, laboratory vessels, corrosion-resistant equipment, dentistry, missile parts, jet endine fuel nozzles, pipelines, steel piers, used to produce lighters, possible use as antipollution device in cars, ocean vessels -- part contents for background part 29 ----- text ----- 0.130 -- part contents for background part 26 ----- text ----- Electron Configuration: 1s 2s 2p 3s 3p 3d 4s 4p 4d 4f 5s 5p 5d 5f 6s 6p 6d 6f 7s 2 2 6 2 6 10 2 6 10 14 2 6 9 1