Definition of Platina

1. n. Platinum.

Definition of Platina

1. platinum [n -S] - See also: platinum

Medical Definition of Platina

1. Platinum. Platina mohr, platinum black. Platina yellow, a pigment prepared from platinum. Origin: Sp. Or NL. See Platinum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Platina

platform rocker
platform screen door
platform shoe
platform shoes
platformed
platformer
platformers
platforming
platforms
plathelminth
plathelminthes
plathelminths
platier
platies
platiest
platina (current term)
platinas
platinate
platinates
platinating
plating
plating carrier
platings
platini-
platinian
platinic
platinichloric
platinichloric acid
platiniferous
platiniridium

Literary usage of Platina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"130 Antimony and platina during combination evolve ight. ... Iodine and platina may be combined. It is composed of nearly One equivalent of iodine . ..."

2. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"EXPERIMENT I. platina is soluble in ultra-muriatic acid, REMARK....This is the only saline combination of this metal, of which the properties have been ..."

3. A System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1803)
"METHOD OF OBTAINING platina. lie processes most commonly employed to obtain pure pia- are as follows : Take equal parts of platina in grains, ..."

4. Philosophical Magazine (1805)
"poured into a solution of muriate of platina, a mercurial muriate of platina is ... This method appears to me to be the neatest for combining platina ..."

5. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"He found that platina, ^••V-* which is f of the whole mau, will render gold no paler than a guinea, which contains only A of ..."

6. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1894)
"platina gave this letter sealed to the Bishop of Treviso, ... According to platina, it was on this occasion that Paul II. said: "Omnia iura in ..."

7. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"As to the alkaline solution, which Vauquelin considered as containing a portion of oxide of chrome, it is observed, that though some kinds of platina may ..."

8. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1823)
"I mix, however, for these experiments, the powder of platina with ... A ball of platina of this kind, although weighing only from 2 to 4> or 6 grains, ..."

9. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"130 Antimony and platina during combination evolve ight. ... Iodine and platina may be combined. It is composed of nearly One equivalent of iodine . ..."

10. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"EXPERIMENT I. platina is soluble in ultra-muriatic acid, REMARK....This is the only saline combination of this metal, of which the properties have been ..."

11. A System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1803)
"METHOD OF OBTAINING platina. lie processes most commonly employed to obtain pure pia- are as follows : Take equal parts of platina in grains, ..."

12. Philosophical Magazine (1805)
"poured into a solution of muriate of platina, a mercurial muriate of platina is ... This method appears to me to be the neatest for combining platina ..."

13. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"He found that platina, ^••V-* which is f of the whole mau, will render gold no paler than a guinea, which contains only A of ..."

14. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1894)
"platina gave this letter sealed to the Bishop of Treviso, ... According to platina, it was on this occasion that Paul II. said: "Omnia iura in ..."

15. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"As to the alkaline solution, which Vauquelin considered as containing a portion of oxide of chrome, it is observed, that though some kinds of platina may ..."

16. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1823)
"I mix, however, for these experiments, the powder of platina with ... A ball of platina of this kind, although weighing only from 2 to 4> or 6 grains, ..."

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