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By c. Edeleanu, M.A., Ph.D.
Tube Investments Research Laboratories, Cambridge
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on the other hand is, in some ways, related
to practices such as de-aeration. -I-2
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The literature dealing with the properties The review of this mass of literature ex-
of platinum and the platinum group metals is, tends to 105 pages and is reasonably compre-
on the whole, sparse and widely scattered. On hensive. The publication as a whole is likely
this account a recent publication, called a to prove an invaluable source book to anyone
“technical phasc report”, prepared by R. W. interested in the literature of the platinum
Douglass, F. C. Holden and R. I. JafTee, of metals, but it is rather less valuable as a
Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. critical survey. The brief introductory notes
Office of Naval Research, is particularly on extraction and benefication are, for
welcome. This was written with the special instance, misleading as far as modem condi-
intention that it should serve as a guide to tions are concerned, for today South Africa
planning experimental work on the platinum is undoubtedly the most significant world
group metals, “revealing”, as the authors put source of the platinum metals. A few of the
it, “areas where concentrated study is needed figures quoted for the physical and mechanical
and preventing duplication of previous work” properties are certainly in error-at least as
and was produced as the first part of a study far as the pure metals are concerned-and
at Battelle of the metallurgical properties of need to be treated with much more reserve
the refractory platinum group metals. than is accorded them by the authors. How-
As it is presented, this report provides a ever, if this is treated as a first-class annotated
very careful survey of the literature of the bibliography-which it primarily is-the
past fifty years on the properties of the report will be found a most useful work of
metals and on the constitution of their reference by all interested in the platinum
binary alloys, listing 281 references. metals. J. C. C.