The Environmental Profile of Platinum Group Metals

Platinum and the Metals of the Platinum Group.

WHAT promises to be the most complete and authoritative work on platinum and platinum deposits is about to be published in Geneva, Switzerland. The author, Louis Duparc, is professor of chemistry and petrology in the University of Geneva; the name of Marguerite N. Tikonovitch is announced as that of the associate author.' Professor Duparc has long been known as the writer of many papers on the ...

Metals in environmental media: A study of trace and platinum group metals in Thohoyandou, South Africa

A detailed study has been conducted to determine the contamination of Thohoyandou roadside soils, vegetation, sewage and river waters by Zn, Cu, Cr, Pb, Cd, Fe, Pt and Pd. The study further investigated the correlation between these trace metals in roadside soils and vegetation in order to infer the potential impacts of roadside trace metals contamination of vegetation. Collected surface soil a...

Promotion of the Cupellation Method for Accurate Determination of Gold Alloy’s Karat Containing Platinum-Group Metals

The main standard method for gold karat determination is the cupellation method. However, this method is not sufficiently accurate to determine gold karat in the presence of insoluble Platinum–Group Metals (PGMs), such as Ir, Ru, and Rh. In this study, for the first time, a complementary method that can be used coupled with the reference cupellation method is presented for the high...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

The Environmental Relevance of the Platinum Group Elements