Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Platinum, especially as found naturally in impure form.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as platinum: the older name.
- n. Twisted silver wire.
- n. An iron plate for glazing stuff.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry, obsolete platinum
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) Platinum.
Etymologies
- Spanish, diminutive of plata, silver, plate, from Vulgar Latin *plattus; see plate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The platina is shorter than the zincs, to prevent its reaching the quicksilver in the bottom of the cell; and the wax balls on its sides are to insulate it from the zinc plates.”
“In a letter to Mr. Hopkinson, I mentioned to him that the Abbe Rochon, who discovered the double refracting power in some of the natural crystals, had lately made a telescope with the metal called platina, which, while it is as susceptible of as perfect a polish as the metal heretofore used for the specula of telescopes, is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are.”
“You have heard often of the metal called platina, to be found only in South America.”
“You have heard often of the metal called platina, to be found only in”
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
“Abbe Rochon, who discovered the double refracting power in some of the natural crystals, had lately made a telescope with the metal called platina, which, while it is as susceptible of as perfect a polish as the metal heretofore used for the specula of telescopes, is insusceptible of rust, as gold and silver are.”
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
“An Abbé Rochon has applied the metal called platina to the telescope instead of the mixed metal of which the specula were formerly composed.”
“Branco is so called because the gold found there was mixed with platina.”
“Considerable works are necessary — a special set of tools, an apparatus of platina, leaden chambers, unassailable by the acid, and in which the transformation is performed, etc. The engineer had none of these at his disposal, but he knew that, in”
“Marble quarries, mines of salt, platina, gold, and coal are worked here on a large scale.”
“Here, indeed, were few cultivated fields; the soil was poor, at least at the surface, but in its bowels lay hid quantities of iron, copper, platina, and gold.”
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chained_bear "'Pratt... caused your chests to be repacked in large cases marked Double-Refined Platina and removed to a lead, brass, and copper warehouse on the river, by Irongate Stairs...'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 127 Mar 17, 2008