Bringing Back the Bling: New Process Recovers Precious Platinum from “Smut”
March 31, 2015
How rare is platinum? Imagine that making an ounce of it is so difficult that even exploding stars called supernovae, the crucibles whose high energies forge most chemical elements, can’t do it. In fact, if the latest theories are correct, it takes a collision of two massive neutron stars – objects so dense that a teaspoon of their matter weighs 100 million tons - to manufacture the metal.
