Fashion, beauty, durability, are one of the many qualities of platinum that has been assumed to be of greater value than gold itself, due to its resistance and beauty, located in Colombia since the 1735s by Antonio de Ulloa on a French expedition.
It is highly valuable, since the Egyptians it was already used since 2,500-year-old hieroglyphs have been found and the state was so perfect that they seemed recently made by experts, in modern times there are very few who manage to work this metal, since it is used mostly in jewelry stores such as Cartier watches. Louis Cartier was the first to use it to make jewelry and to this day it remains the first in style and beauty for its high value and prestigious garments.
The most important characteristics of Platinum apart from being very resistant is its shiny silver color that makes it attractive to the eye. It is malleable, hard, so resistant that it does not rust with changes in temperature. In the numerical periodic table we have it with the symbol Pt, with atomic number 78. There was a time in history where the excavators did not give it greater importance since they discarded it in large quantities to the sea, calling it platinum because of its similarity to silver It has had a long history over time, reaching France from the most renowned jewelery houses such as Cartier, Tiffany, bringing it to supreme beauty along with high quality diamonds.
It is obtained in large quantities on rocky ground or alluvium, but not in all parts of the world only in South Africa and Russia are privileged to obtain the greatest amount of platinum, apart from fine jewelry, build with it the tips of missiles, rockets and aircraft, and the engines thereof as in vehicles. In the part of health in odontalgia it was widely used to make dental crowns, in Russia to seal coins, in 1977 it began to be used in a medicine to treat and cure cancer, such as prostate cancer. Just as gold is recognized for its worth, this metal far surpassed it, since it does not have an important value as in the record industryAfter the gold record, they went platinum to honor the singer for exceeding 2,000 copies sold of his records. In the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis United States, it was introduced as a medal for the first time.
