Mayara da Silva Santos, doctoral candidate at the University of Freiburg’s Institute of Physics, has discovered a new oxidation state of rhodium. This chemical element is one of the most catalytically ...
Gold is a long-term store of value. Silver is its rather more capricious little sister. But what about the other precious metals? The platinum-group metals have attracted increasing amounts of ...
On Christmas Eve in 1800, English scientist William Hyde Wollaston a piece of nearly pure platinum ore, secretly purchased and smuggled from the Spanish colony of Nueva Granada (Colombia, today) for ...