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“This will probably be the only time in my life that I will be able to play with platinum in such a casual way.”
Martyn Poliakoff from the Periodic Table of Videos visits Johnson Matthey’s platinum plant where catalysts are made. During the tour he shows off a table stacked with GBP1.5 million (US$2.2 million) of platinum group metals.
The plant manufactures a thin weave of platinum that is used in automobiles and chemical plants.
“In all this processing, they generate dust, and most of it’s caught, but some of it you can’t avoid going into the air and falling to the floor,” says Poliakoff.
“Some of it collects on our shoes, so when you go in and out they have special brushes to clean the bottom of your shoes, and they recover a large amount of metal each year, worth more than a decent sized car.”
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Mike Shultz
I like how we Call it a “Catalyst” (is that so we can put 1 more layer of Mystery in IT? Tell it like IT IS. Gold has nothing standing up to PT,PD and Rhodium ( these are metals (that are far from what is used per “just jamming them in (the emmissions parts of (the lowly exhaust systems of cars. They Clean water as 3/4 planet is salt water and the Fresh is so messed with Toxic man made chemicals and thus we have a ozone layer and “whole in the protective layer of atmosphere. Let us Clean the world of Toxins with PGM’s and the juniors (the Future is at stake and we MKT them as exhaust cleaners and spark-plug layering/ come on TRUTH BE TOLD what is mined could save this wretched planet, to bad we can not make platinum bullets legal to kill the scum/ not advancing science to USE AS SHOULD/ PROFIT BEFORE REALITY. Let the miners mine it, use it as should be used. MY SCRAP newsletter goes deep into the uses and why let all have the Gold and “good Science the PT PD and more “to save the world.