which country was the first to discover it?
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where are the heaviest metals located in a periodic table Columns 3 to 16 which are some of these found in the environment? Iron, copper, tin, silver, gold, and platinum. what are the physical properties of the last element? It has excellent resistance to corrosion, is stable at high temperatures and has stable electrical properties.
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Platinum [SEP] European discovery
The first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 in the writings of the Italian humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger as a description of an unknown noble metal found between Darién and Mexico, "which no fire nor any Spanish artifice has yet been able to liquefy". From their first encounters with platinum, the Spanish generally saw the metal as a kind of impurity in gold, and it was treated as such. It was often simply thrown away, and there was an official decree forbidding the adulteration of gold with platinum impurities. In 1735, Antonio de Ulloa and Jorge Juan y Santacilia saw Native Americans mining platinum while the Spaniards were travelling through Colombia and Peru for eight years.