Friday, June 23, 2017

What is Platinum powder

What is Platinum powder? Platinum powder may be unfamiliar to a lot of people, and here's the introduction to it:
Platinum is a chemical element that is known as platinum and belongs to the platinum element. Its chemical symbol Pt is one of the precious metals. Atomic weight 195.078, slightly less than the atomic weight of gold, atomic number 78, belongs to transition metal.
Platinum is widely used because of its high chemical stability (except for its insoluble acid, alkali) and catalytic activity. Cobalt can be combined with strong magnets. More used to make corrosion resistant chemical instruments, such as various kinds of reaction vessel, evaporating dish, crucible, electrode, platinum wire mesh, platinum and platinum rhodium alloy are commonly used for thermocouple, measure the temperature of 1200 ~ 1750 ℃. It can also be used to make jewelry. Platinum can be used as catalyst in hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, isomerization, cyclization, dehydration, dehalogenation, oxidation, cracking and other chemical reactions. In medicine, cancer drugs can be used, and platinum compounds such as Cisplatin are used for chemotherapy for cancer.

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