platinum

English

Platinum nuggets.

Chemical element
Pt	Previous: iridium (Ir)
	Next: gold (Au)

Etymology

Spanish platina (“little silver”), because platinum was found as an apparent impurity with silver.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈplæt.ɪn.əm/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈplætənəm/, /ˈplætnəm/

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Adjective

platinum (comparative more platinum, superlative most platinum)

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

colour

• Bulgarian: платинен m (platínen)

musical recording

• Bulgarian: платинен m (platínen)
• Czech: platinový (cs)

• Polish: platynowy m, platynowa f

Noun

platinum (countable and uncountable, plural platinums)

Wikipedia

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

   platinum colour:

3. (music) A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million.

Synonyms

• platina (obsolete)

Derived terms

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

metal

• Afrikaans: platinum
• Albanian: platin
• Arabic: بلاتين m (blātīn)
• Armenian: պլատին (platin)
• Asturian: platín m
• Basque: platinoa
• Belarusian: плацiна f (plácina)
• Breton: platin m
• Bulgarian: платина f (platína)
• Catalan: platí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白金 (zh) (báijīn), 鉑 (zh), 铂 (zh) (bó)

• Cornish: platynum
• Czech: platina (cs) f
• Danish: platin n
• Dutch: platina (nl) n
• Esperanto: plateno
• Estonian: plaatina (et)
• Faroese: platin
• Finnish: platina (fi)
• French: platine (fr) m
• Friulian: platin
• Galician: platino (gl)
• Georgian: პლატინა (platina)
• German: Platin (de) n
• Greek: πλατίνα (el) m (platína), λευκόχρυσος (el) m (lefkóchrysos)
• Hebrew: פלטינה (he) (platína)
• Hindi: महातु (mahātu)
• Hungarian: platina (hu)
• Icelandic: platína (is)
• Irish: platanam m
• Italian: platino (it) m
• Japanese: プラチナ (ja) (purachina), 白金 (ja) (はっきん, hakkin)
• Kashubian: platina
• Kazakh: платина (platïna)
• Khmer: ប្លាទីន (plaatiin)
• Korean: 백금 (ko) (baekkeum) (白金 (ko)), 플래티나 (ko) (peullaetina)
• Latin: platinum (la)

• Latvian: platīns
• Lithuanian: platina (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Platin
• Macedonian: платина f (platína)
• Malay: platinum, platina, mas kodok
• Maltese: platinu
• Manx: platinum
• Mongolian: платин (platin), цагаан (mn) (tsagaan), цагаан алт (tsagaan alt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: platina (no) n

  Nynorsk: platina (nn) n

• Persian: پلاتین (fa) (pelâtin)
• Polish: platyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: platina (pt) f
• Romanian: platină (ro) f
• Russian: платина (ru) f (plátina)
• Scottish Gaelic: platanam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: платина f

  Roman: platina f

• Sicilian: plàtinu m
• Slovak: platina f
• Slovene: platina (sl) f
• Spanish: platino (es) m
• Swedish: platina (sv) c
• Tajik: платина (platina)
• Tamil: வெண்தங்கம் (veNthangam), வெண்மம் (veNmam), விழுப்பொன் (ta) (vizhuppon)
• Thai: แพลทินัม (plaetínam)
• Turkish: platin (tr)
• Ukrainian: платина f (plátyna)
• Uzbek: platina

  Cyrillic: платина

• Vietnamese: platin
• Volapük: platin (vo)
• Welsh: platinwm (cy)
• West Frisian: platina n

colour

• Bulgarian: платина f (platína), платинен m (platínen)

• Portuguese: platinado m, platinada f

See also

• cooperite
• sperrylite
• Appendix:Colors

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Pt	Previous: iridium (Ir)
	Next: goud (Au)

Adjective

platinum (attributive platinum, not comparable)

1. platinum; made from platinum

Noun

platinum (uncountable)

1. platinum

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plaˈtiː.num/, [plaˈtiː.nũ]

Noun

platīnum n (genitive platīnī); second declension

1. platinum

Inflection

Second declension neuter.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	platīnum	platīna
genitive	platīnī	platīnōrum
dative	platīnō	platīnīs
accusative	platīnum	platīna
ablative	platīnō	platīnīs
vocative	platīnum	platīna

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplaː˨ti˧nɔ˧m]

Noun

platinum m

1. (uncountable) platinum
2. A part of platinum

Inflection

Declension of platinum

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	platinum	platina	platineke	platinekes
Genitive	platinums	platina	platinekes	platinekes
Locative	platineës	platineëser	platineëske	platineëskes
Dative¹	platinumme	—	platineke	—
Accusative¹	platinum	—	platineke	—

¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
Pt	Previous: iridium (Ir)
	Next: emas (Au)

Etymology

From English platinum, from Spanish platina.

Alternative forms

• pelatinam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [platinom], [platinəm], [plɛtinəm]
• Rhymes: -inom, -nom, -om

Noun

platinum

1. platinum (chemical element)