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PLATINUM A USEFUL METAL. But it is Two and One-Half Times as Costly as Gold. In chemical laboratories the safety of the equipment of platinum vessels such as crucibles, dishes, trays and stirring rods receives constant attention. Platinum is the costliest useful metal in the world, having about two and one-bait times tne market value of gold. A thousand dollars' worth of platinum crucibles could be easily carried in a man's pocket. Such vessels cost about $50 1 a troy ounce. Thefts of platinum from laboratories are of frequent occurrence. The thief usually has received laboratory training and knows the value of platinum. He visits a laboratory for pretended professional purposes, and while discussing scientific questions with the chemist in charge manages to secrete such platinum as comes within his reach and disappears. Platinum is so precious that both anH its nurchasers 1U> Uiauuiavtuivtu muw ... r ? _ place upon each article an individual mark, which is recorded, together with the actual weight. The latter is computed to the fourth decimal which is inclusive of one-tenth of a milligram. Losses by theft are promptly reported, frequently by telegraph, to manufacturers and dealers in platinum and scientific publications, the ^ weight, size and form of each article being carefully described. There are only four or five reputable dealers in platinum for laboratory purposes . in the United States. The metal is extensively usea, however, in mounting for jewels, and in the manufacture of electric light globes. Its utility for the latter purpS; pose is due to the fact that the coefficients of expansion of platinum * and glass are the same. j The physical virtues of platinum from the standpoint of the chemist and assayer constitute the thief's greatest difficulty in disposing of his spoils if he is expert, without scientific knowledge of how to melt or decompose the metal. Platinum remains intact in the fierce heat of an ? oxyhydrogen blow-pipe up to 1,700 degrees centigrade, or about 3,200 % V degrees Fahrenheit, while lead melts at^327, silver 961, gold at 1,071 and % 1 iron 'at 1,550 degrees centigrade. Platinum is not solvent in any sin gle acid, but may be attacked by a ?v:; combination of certain acids, with ^ the result that it becomes brittle. Strong acids are commonly used in Jv'.. \ cleaning platinum vessels in the lab(g-J oratory. Peculiarly, platinum is easily cleaned by rubbing it with ' round moist sea sand on the end of one's finger. In appearance platinum lacks the richness of gold, and ' resembles tin that has become slightly oxidized. * * Tn a well-eauiDDed laboratory for ||i Original research the various platinum dishes, crucibles and stirring y; Tods have an aggregate weight of \.i ^ about 2,600 grams and an approxi| ' mate value of $5,000. The largest pV vessels are 2 1-2 inches in diameter ^ > and 1 1-8 inches in depth, weigh 40 grams each and are wTorth about $80 each. A single stirring rod may, jfe cost more than $100. The world's supply of platinum mfc comes mostly from the Ural MounK.71 ' tains, in Russia, and has been dell; creased by the European war. In 1909^ the world's output of crude platinum vwas 198,330 troy ounces, of which 190,087 came from Russia. . "A > , ic frkimH alsn in Canada. riauuuw 10 ? , New South Wales, Colombia, Borneo and Sdmatra. and in the States of f y California, Oregon and Wyoming. I|~J The annual output of crude platinum in the United States is about gj^r 700 troy ounces.?New York Sun. Pointed Paragraphs. EllF I'. . Fools boast, but wise men only adp; mit. More people are pinched by poverty than by the police. p*-> . Mathematicians come under the caption of figureheads. / It isn't what a man owes but what he pays that jolts him. Every man knows a lot of fool things he would do if he had the money. Some spinsters advance step by step until they finally become stepmothers. SKsl' A vouna man can make any girl &>. ... ? - - - blush by telling her he is a mind reader. You'll never succeed as a wheelbarrow or lawn mower chauffeur un5 less you have push. There isn't very much danger in proposing to a young widow?if you really want to marry her. It is likely to fool an American heiress when a foreign nobleman V talks through his coronet instead of his hat. 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