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platinum is resistant to corrosion and occurs in some nickel and copper ores along with some native deposits. Platinum is used in jewelery, laboratory equipment, electrical contacts, dentistry, and automobile emissions control devices. Platinum bullion is the official exchange rate of the Ferengi (Oh, wait that's latinum).
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I don't know if you can necessarily cite a "primary" purpose of platinum; however, as the prior response explains, platinum serves a variety of different roles today. The most obvious use for platinum is jewelry (I bought my wife a plat. engagement ring) after extensive research, during which I learned about the rest of platinum's sundry uses. Platinum uses: - catalytic converters - fuel cells - gas refineries - glass fibre - flat panel screens - pacemakers - computer hard disks - personal razors - tableware - chemotherapy drugs and radiation treatment Here's a fact for you to think about considering how integrated platinum is in our daily lives.. The world supply of platinum is apparently just enough to fill an olympic-sized swimming pool up to your ankles. To put it in perspective, if you were to measure gold in the same way, gold would fully fill three olympic-sized pools. That said, it's a rare, precious metal that is probably best known for its role in jewelry, but also holds great status in the scientific and health world.
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