Definitions
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- noun chemistry The
univalent anion PtF6- prepared by reacting platinum hexafluoride with certainmetals or otherelements .
Etymologies
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From hexa- + fluoro- + platinate.
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Examples
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Indeed, in 1962 Neil Bartlett, working at the University of British Columbia and later at Princeton, prepared the first noble gas compound — xenon hexafluoroplatinate, XePtF6.
Ramsay, William 2009
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You got access to the university library there do us a favour and look up table of redox potencials for the hexafluoroplatinate ion.
The Loathesome Tale of Mr. and Mrs. O'Noisigan Fathorse 2008
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