Open AccessXVI. On the liquation of metals of the platinum group
Publication year - 1892
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society of london. a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9231
pISSN - 0264-3820
DOI - 10.1098/rsta.1892.0016
Subject(s) - liquation , platinum group , platinum , palladium , rhodium , aluminium , group (periodic table) , metallurgy , materials science , chemistry , alloy , biochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis
In the present paper, which is a continuation of a former one which has already been submitted to the Royal Society and has been published in the “roceedings,” an attempt is made to ascertain whether liquation occurs in alloys of the rarer metals, notably in those of platinum, with palladium, and with rhodium, and of gold with aluminium. In the paper communicated to the Royal Society in 1890 upon this subject, I stated that ninety parts of fine gold melted with ten parts of pure platinum, and cast into a spherical mould showed a liquation of the platinum to the centre of the sphere, as shown in Diagram C in that paper.