Platinum

Etymology
platina, "little silver" (because platinum was found as an apparent impurity with silver)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

 * 1) Of a whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
 * 2) Of a musical recording that has sold over one million copies (for singles), or two million (for albums).

Derived terms

 * go platinum

Translations

 * Czech: platinový


 * Polish: platynowy, platynowa

Noun

 * 1) The metallic chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt.
 * 2) A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.

Synonyms

 * platina

Derived terms

 * carboplatin
 * cisplatin
 * eka-platinum
 * go platinum
 * iridio-platinum
 * oxaliplatin
 * Paraplatin
 * platin-
 * platinammonium chloride
 * platinate
 * platinic
 * platiniferous
 * platiniridium
 * platinise, platinize
 * platinite
 * platino-
 * platinocyanide
 * platinode
 * platinoid
 * platinous


 * platinum arsenide
 * platinum-black
 * platinum blond, platinum blonde
 * platinum-blue
 * platinum coney
 * platinum dichloride
 * platinum disc, platinum disk
 * platinum fox
 * platinum-grey
 * platinum hexafluoride
 * platinum-iridium
 * platinum-lamp
 * platinum metal
 * platinum mink
 * platinum sponge
 * platinum-steel
 * platinum tetrachloride
 * platinum-zinc
 * potassio-platinum chloride

Related terms

 * platina

Translations

 * Afrikaans: platinum
 * Albanian: platin
 * Arabic: (blá:tin)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: platinoa
 * Belarusian: плацiна (plátsina)
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: platin
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: platí
 * Chinese: 铂, 鉑 (bó), 白金 (báijīn)
 * Cornish: platynum
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: platin
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: platin
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: platin
 * Galician: platino
 * Georgian: პლატინა (platina)
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: פלטינה (platína)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: platanam
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: プラチナ (purachina), 白金 (はっきん, hakkin)
 * Kashubian: platina


 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 백금 (白金, baekkeum), 플래티나 (peullaetina)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: platīns
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Platin
 * Macedonian: платина (plátina)
 * Malay: ,
 * Maltese: platinu
 * Manx: platinum
 * Mongolian: платин (platin), цагаан (tsagaan)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: platinâ
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: platanam
 * Serbian: платина (platina)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: platina
 * Tamil: வெண்தங்கம்/வெண்மம்/விழுப்பொன் (veNthangam/veNmam/vizhuppon)
 * Thai: (plaetínam)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: platin
 * Volapük: platin
 * Welsh: platinwm
 * West Frisian: platina


 * Portuguese: platinado, platinada

Noun

 * 1)  platinum
 * 2) A part of platinum

Inflection
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