
Platinum
Silvery, whitish-gray, malleable, ductile metal. Mp: 1772 °C; bp: 2187 °C. Density: 21.45 g cm-3 at room conditions (very dense). Also shipped as a finely divided powder (platinum black), as a sponge, and as particles deposited on a supporting material such as alumina. Has strong catalytic activity in these forms; finely divided platinum can be dangerous to handle in the vicinity of other chemicals on this account. Used platinum catalysts are particularly dangerous and can be explosive. — CAMEO Chemicals
- IUPAC name
- platinum
- Molecular formula
- Pt
- Molecular weight
- 195.08 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 194.964794 Da
- Topological polar surface area
- 0.0 Ų
- Hydrogen-bond donors
- 0
- Hydrogen-bond acceptors
- 0
- Covalent units
- 1
- Defined stereocentres
- 0
Also known as
16 more reported names
External database identifiers
- ChEBI:CHEBI:33364
- ChEBI:CHEBI:33398
- ChEBI:CHEBI:33400
- EPA DTXSID:DTXSID9064681
- PubMed:29512227
- PubMed:28465190
- PubMed:25846798
- PubMed:24209693
- PubMed:24150977
- PubMed:23724284
- PubMed:22491798
- PubMed:21570711
- PubMed:21370912
- PubMed:21107699
- PubMed:21067421
- PubMed:20732381
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