Back in the 1970's I was given a piece of rock from a mining company in South Africa with a 3mm wide vein of platinum and gold running through it, from the Merensky Reef, Rustenberg Platinum mines. I still have this rock sample today. It also triggered off a lifetime interest in Geology and collecting mineral specimens from across the world.
I used to work in analytical chemistry where we'd use platinum for the electrolytic deposition of copper. One day we spent hours trying to find a platinum anode that had gone missing, after 4 hours we gave up. Next day the facility electrician was wondering why his soldering iron wasn't melting a piece of solder, even though it was hot. He'd picked up the platinum electrode thinking it was a piece of tin/silver solder that he'd left behind!
This is such a good idea for a channel - I'm glad I found it! I'm not an investor or anything - I just really like to learn about the resources we use so frequently in our lives without even knowing it. I'm going into the field of mining engineering, which is why this video on platinum piqued my interest, and now that it has, I'm excited to watch more of them!
I used to be a silver-plating room operator for a medical device manufacturer. During my training, I was told that platinum is actually the best metal conductor of electrical current, but silver was a good cost-efficient alternative. The two years I spent on that job sparked an interest in chemistry (metallurgy in particular) that I wish I'd discovered in high school. This is a fascinating video, and I thank you for sharing it!
Silver is by far the most conductive metal, copper is used as a low cost alternative. Gold is used for contacts because it does not tarnish like silver or copper.
During your training, you were lied to. Below is the conductively of different metals in S/m: Silver is 26.5 times more conductive that titanium. Silver: 6.30×10^7 Copper: 5.96×10^7 Annealed copper: 5.80×10^7 Gold: 4.11×10^7 Aluminum: 3.77×10^7 ... Titanium: 2.38x10^6
Top notch video. Surprised it is not a million views. I guess your content is too high of quality and not "viral enough." Keep up the good work. History always recognizes and rewards the greats.
I stumbled across this channel about a month ago since I had to do research for a group project about Atomic Fuel and its rise. I was researching and researching when I stumbled across commodity culture! Now I don't only watch the videos for projects, but I was them for knowledge! well done :D (I just can't wait for the channel to explode)
The marks of a well produced video. This video definitely hits that mark. Good editing and information that makes you want to know more. Thanks for taking the time to produce this video.
Fiberglass is made by extruding glass through a platinum tiny hole. The other use is to enable you to breathe ozone. Not pure ozone but when ozone goes through a platinum filter that converts the o3 molecules by holding onto one of the electrons and when the next molecules come along they get joined to make two oxygen molecules... o2
Very good documentary indeed. Well done and thank you for sharing it. Your prognosis for rapid increase in use for fuel cells may however be premature. Hydrogen fuel cells are unlikely to gain much traction in the automotive and power generation industries as Li-Ion batteries have proven to be more reliable, and far cheaper (and increasingly so). In terms of power generation, solar is now the cheapest form of electrical generation, and getting cheaper. Wind follows a close second. Coupled with Li-Ion mega-pack batteries, the unsubsidised marginal cost of 1kwh is now less than 2US cents - and getting even cheaper. So... platinum is unlikely to be in such high demand from around 2028/30 - and demand will decrease exponentially when ICE automobiles become redundant - probably between 2030 and 2035.
Thanks for the comment, although based on the research I have done wind and solar are so incredibly inefficient I'm not sure they'll have a big future as sources of energy.
Thank you very much for your time and effort you put into the all of the detail in this video We was also pleasantly surprised how you were willing to incorporate our God of ALL gods into the video Thanks again and may God bless you
Thank you but I'm not religious, although I believe in a higher power and creator of the universe. I was referring to God in the history section as it would have been the widely-held belief of the characters in the story.
Platinum is even less reactive than gold and used as catalyst more often. The only reason why gold is more expensive because of Human emotional and cultural reason (it is easier to use gold as currency due to its relative abundance). Hence higher trading volume leads to higher price.
in 1998 some americans had come to my grandfather’s village, they want to ask permission from my grandfather to be allowed to dig something in my grandfather’s land area, the american scientist promised a wage of a sum of money worth 1billions and will distribute 15 buffaloes to the villagers, but fortunately my grandfather rejected it because he felt something was wrong. only yesterday I got to know from my mother, She said the american scientists came to my grandfather’s village because they wanted to take the platinum that was in my grandfather’s land area. despite being persuaded by american scientists my grandfather reject their offers.
Hey, not too bad of a documentary . I learned that it was probably nickel miners ,not gold miners that lead to modern discovery of platinum , it would stick to their drilling rods ,making a "pain in the rear end" equipment clean-up situation . It was first named "platinum" in the late 1700s. Iron is pronounced as "I-earn" . Platinum ,palladium ,ruthenium ,rhodium ,iridium and osmium are the platinum group elements/ metals. Platinum or palladium oxides are normally what are used for catalytic conversions . Exposure to alcohol vapors and similar distillate vapors ( like gasoline ) causes the oxides to super heat and ignite the distillate . In that state it Is " trying" to reconvert itself to a metallic state by replacing the oxides and a metallic reconversion , there are actually minable amounts of platinum and palladium metal dust on busy streets from this process happening in the converters .
@Commodity Culture they were definitely spanish ! I'd imagine as with most everything else, the stories were probably from multiple sources in various Spanish mines . I actually like platinum the best out of the precious metals , but that doesn't mean everything I learned is correct and I am sure that I don't know everything about it...Far from.
Thanks for the information. According to my research, it was the Spanish conquistadors who discovered it while mining gold but I'm sure there's other viable possibilities.
@Based Mushroom Silver's move to a purely industrial metal is indeed possible. From the monetary side, the game-changer would be big institutions starting to invest in physical.
@Commodity Culture Interesting, I wonder if silver will rise or fall in this case because I'm pretty sure silver will not become tomorrows money, and it seems like it's becoming more of an industrial metal as time moves forward.
Platinum cost $450 /oz in 1983. Today it is around $950/oz. If you'd invested that same $450 in 1983 in Apple stock, you'd have a million dollars. Precious metals are horrible long term investments.
I think platinum is more useful than gold. I saw a photo of platinum crucibles that was made in 1860 or thereabouts and still in use in a UK university.
@wow shorts oh no for shure u will have to look for someone that is into it... I only have one platinum coin got it at the beginning of 2022 1/2oz always wanted one.. maybe one day al trade it for gold or something else worth it.. but yes platinum and palladium and silver look alike in metals and dealers sometimes don't belive its platinum or palladium so u have to give prof where u got it from paper work or something..
Palladium is valuable days, but it’s lower on the periodic table than Silver. Silver is rather cheap, cost not more than 30.00 an ounce, whereas palladium is over 2,000.00 an ounce
Platinum isn't hard! its a soft metal with a 4-4.5 on the MOHs scale of hardness! I dont know where you heard it was a hard metal resistant to scratches...
You are correct on the MOHs, from what I understand that means all metals with a higher rating could scratch it so it appears I misspoke. Thank you for pointing it out.
Good video. Fact check, Isaac Newton was born well after it was proved the world was flat and the majority believed the world to be round well before that, the Greeks even proved it using Geometry.
Platinum takes almost double the time to finish in jewellery and has to be soldered with welding glasses on. If it loses it’s precious appeal due to the decrease in price its stuffed because the labour necessary at the jewellery bench will make it economically unsustainable.
9:08 response quoted from Wikipedia: "The myth of the flat Earth, or the flat-Earth error, is a modern historical misconception that European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat." "According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat Earth darkness' among scholars, regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now. Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the Earth's roundness as an established fact of cosmology." Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference". Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-Earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over biological evolution. Russell claims "with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat","
As a side note, I'd like to make a small correction (irrelevant to the main subject). Almost no one in the 1700s (or even the 1400s when Columbus lived) believed that the Earth was flat (certainly not educated people). Ulloa took part in the French Geodesic Mission of 1735 with the goal of performing an arc measurement, measuring the length of a degree of latitude near the Equator, by which the Earth radius at the equatorial plane could be inferred. The ultimate purpose of the mission was to confirm the suspicion that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but had a greater circumference at the equator. Also, Newton was dead for more than a decade by that time. The myth about most people believing the Earth was flat during these times has been long held but in the last decade it has started to die down. It is gradually becoming common knowledge to more and more school students that even during Columbus' time no one doubted* the fact that the Earth was round**. More facts concerning the French geodesic mission which brought Ulloa to the Americas can be be accessed via a wikipedia search. * The argument between Columbus and his critics was about the size of the Earth. They correctly pointed out that assuming (by everyone,, inlcuding Columbus himself) that only an ocean lies between the westernmost point of Europe and the easternmost point of Asia, its length would be so vast that they would ran out of potable water. Lucky for him an entire unknown continent existed in his path, which saved his and his crews' life. ** In fact since at least since the Hellenistic period in antiquity all educated people knew that the Earth is spherical. Eratosthenes in 200BC(!) actually measured the circumference of the planet with surprising accuracy using a very simple and smart methodology.
If you did not research on the matter and ended up propagating misinformation... how are we to trust that you did research the rest of the video? Please, avoid saying things in videos unless you research them!
@Filippos Koliopanos Thank you very much for the kind words and appreciate the subscription! I will try to be more cautious in getting everything right moving forward, though a few things will be bound to slip between the cracks.
@Commodity Culture You have a point there. I guess what bugged me most was that this small part of the video unwittingly contributes to the long held belief that people thought the Earth was flat up until the time* of Columbus. In fact since at least the Hellenistic period in antiquity all educated people knew that the Earth is spherical. Eratosthenes in 200BC(!) actually measured the circumference of the planet with surprising accuracy using a very simple and smart methodology. That said, the fact that you care to interact with you audience's comments tells me that you are serious about your channel and did not just throw a quick and inaccurate narration over a hastily made video just to scrape views. I have now watched a few more of your videos and their quality is obvious. I will edit my initial comment just to provide the additional info, without the criticism. It's now unjustified as it no longer reflects my opinion on the video or your channel and I wouldn't want to take away from your effort. And especially I do not want to discourage you from making similar historical videos about elements in the future. There is not a lot of info about this subject out there and I am confident your videos will eventually get the views they deserve. I for one have now subscribed to your channel.
Thanks for clarifying, the reason I didn't research much about the purpose of the expedition is that it had such a small bearing on the subject at hand, the discovery of platinum as an element.
By the 18th century, most people navigating a ship understood that the Earth wasn't flat. The spherical Earth model had already been proven scientifically.
Sorry, that was pretty ridiculous in this video... The earth has been circumnavigated many times before Newton was born! The earth was known to be a sphere for two thousand years!
@M The video says the 18th century voyage was involved with proving the Earth was a sphere and it said that up until that point in history, the idea of a flat Earth was popular.
Factual as it is , that groups o've metals are found in an ore specimen ( this case the Iron specimen ) in a minimal content including Gold , the none, Periodic Table knowledge is ; that o've , " it's natural intended composition " . The ore which Jehovah God through His ability in creating this earth for us , in time is expels from or is found with in a deposit through out our earth A Gold deposit for example contains , Silver , Copper , and Iron fragments within its natural state of composition . Copper in it's compose original form contains fragments o've Gold, Silver, Iron . Like wise is noted for Silver . The combination o've all metals makes a perfect Alloy for multiple applications ! With the introduction and assistance o've chemicals , a separation o've the corresponding metals is achived rendering a more abundant use of the different content metals within ! The reason that silver tarnishes so much is caused by the stripping o've the fragments mentioned here tin hat makes up it's natural composition form ! Like wise , copper roofs offer's a very elegant touch to a building or a home especially luxury ones , though soon an unpleased emotion for many owners takes part after it retains a dull and many instances a musty green hue . Engagement rings for instance in markets throughout , are sold mostly in hues o've Pink , Black , White Gold , or Platinum jewelry in contrast to a natural Gold , Iron , Copper or Silver jewelry for instance in form o've 10k , 14k, 18k, and 22k respecting their origanal form . The hoax as to giving all value and glory to the Gold specimen ore , has proven unnecessary concidering that it's content is found in every foods we consume including cattle , which with the aid of chemical the menerials mentioned here in can be extracted profusely ! I need shoes !
Can sombody explain why our bodies or a catle for that matter , consist of iron , copper , silver , gold , magnisium but not platinum ? Also , if it's that valuable or if it had its present dating back to the Egyptian monarch era , why the elaboration of a false god reprsented by a calf was made out of gold and not platinum ? Also when Daniel depicts in the bible the statue of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar it reflects a head of gold a chest of silver a torso of copper and feet of clay mixed with iron ? Where is platinum in the bible mentioned ? Platinum is a man-made alloy with combinations of steel, magnesium , lead and verry little to no silver these days ! The artifact in Peru labled platinum now , do contain more silver in them but, little gold , steel however mostly lead ( Lead mentioned in the bible and used in that era and today by peasants for meal preparing tuperware ) where exchanged and brought by the Spaniard which in many cases depicted tribal leaders that did not have a clue about shoes or sandals much less to the riches of gold in their surroundings . They were mesmerized by the Spaniard Jewelry craftsmen's ability to carve the soften lead to resemble a Machupicchu tribal leader or wife that shine like gold in their initial form ! Noting a peasant craftmen today in Bangladesh ellaborating copper bangles , one can reach a conclusion how the Sapniard craftmen would gold plate the metal artifacts without any harsh chemicals or the aid of an electro conducive anode ! Today's Paltinum , No Gold No Silver ! Just good old Steel , Magnesium ( Manganese ) , and Lead ( zinc ) ! Just like Aluminum Platinum is a man-compositioned Alloy ! Such ellaborations does not make the alloy inferior for Jehovah God gave man the ability to resemble his creativity !
If you had left out religion & concentrated on hard, scientific fact this would have been, "for me" rather more enjoyable, It was interesting to learn of the importance of Platinum in our modern world.
Glad you found part of it interesting but I'm a little confused because there is basically no mention of religion at all, aside from a few mentions of God in the history section.
Somewhat interesting but the numerous mispronunciations of common English words bring into doubt the accuracy of the presentation. The most bizarre was the narrators pronunciation of Iron as I-ron. "Placer" is pronounced with long 'a", not a short 'a', etc. throughout. The narrator sounds to be a native English speaker, just not a very well educated one.
Back in the 1970's I was given a piece of rock from a mining company in South Africa with a 3mm wide vein of platinum and gold running through it, from the Merensky Reef, Rustenberg Platinum mines. I still have this rock sample today. It also triggered off a lifetime interest in Geology and collecting mineral specimens from across the world.
That's awesome!
I used to work in analytical chemistry where we'd use platinum for the electrolytic deposition of copper. One day we spent hours trying to find a platinum anode that had gone missing, after 4 hours we gave up. Next day the facility electrician was wondering why his soldering iron wasn't melting a piece of solder, even though it was hot. He'd picked up the platinum electrode thinking it was a piece of tin/silver solder that he'd left behind!
Love it, great story!
This is such a good idea for a channel - I'm glad I found it! I'm not an investor or anything - I just really like to learn about the resources we use so frequently in our lives without even knowing it. I'm going into the field of mining engineering, which is why this video on platinum piqued my interest, and now that it has, I'm excited to watch more of them!
Thank you, I'm glad you find the videos useful and I also started this channel because I was interested in the same thing.
Very well done! I am an assayer at a palladium mine and I found the history to be very enlightening. Thank you.
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I wish to know about mine and minirals.. im greatfully happy to know about Platinum. Tnx to this channel
Very high praise coming from someone in the industry, thank you so much!
I used to be a silver-plating room operator for a medical device manufacturer. During my training, I was told that platinum is actually the best metal conductor of electrical current, but silver was a good cost-efficient alternative. The two years I spent on that job sparked an interest in chemistry (metallurgy in particular) that I wish I'd discovered in high school. This is a fascinating video, and I thank you for sharing it!
@Matt Gray does that even exist at room temperature right now?
*superconductivity has joined the game*
Silver is by far the most conductive metal, copper is used as a low cost alternative.
Gold is used for contacts because it does not tarnish like silver or copper.
@First Last you left out platinum
During your training, you were lied to. Below is the conductively of different metals in S/m: Silver is 26.5 times more conductive that titanium.
Silver: 6.30×10^7
Copper: 5.96×10^7
Annealed copper: 5.80×10^7
Gold: 4.11×10^7
Aluminum: 3.77×10^7
...
Titanium: 2.38x10^6
Super interesting and very well produced. I enjoyed the subject and learned aspects of the metal I didn't know.
Glad it was helpful!
Top notch video.
Surprised it is not a million views. I guess your content is too high of quality and not "viral enough."
Keep up the good work. History always recognizes and rewards the greats.
Thank you, really appreciate it and happy you enjoyed the video!
I stumbled across this channel about a month ago since I had to do research for a group project about Atomic Fuel and its rise. I was researching and researching when I stumbled across commodity culture! Now I don't only watch the videos for projects, but I was them for knowledge! well done :D (I just can't wait for the channel to explode)
I found it by watching the documentary on Platinum, and simple put, so much interesting info I subscribed.
Thank you for the kind words and your support!
The marks of a well produced video.
This video definitely hits that mark.
Good editing and information that makes you want to know more.
Thanks for taking the time to produce this video.
Thank you for watching and the kind comment.
That was one more perfect video ☺️👏🏻 can you make one with copper please? :)
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Thank you! I am definitely considering copper for a future episode :)
Your platinum documentary got my attention. Your channel is incredible!
Thank you very much, appreciate the kind words!
Fascinating! An interesting story well told! Thank you!
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Thank you for watching!
Your channel deserves more viewers and subscribers
Thank you really appreciate it!
Incredible job man 🦁
Thank you!
Thank you for your team_bringing history of past documents to a great present time video. Cheers to All !
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Glad you enjoyed it and happy you think there's a team, I'm a one-man show haha.
Fiberglass is made by extruding glass through a platinum tiny hole.
The other use is to enable you to breathe ozone. Not pure ozone but when ozone goes through a platinum filter that converts the o3 molecules by holding onto one of the electrons and when the next molecules come along they get joined to make two oxygen molecules... o2
Very interesting.
Not going to lie dude, loved this content. Subbed and added this to a playlist on precious metals I watch when I'm hung over
Glad you enjoy it! Being hung over seems as good a time as any for some precious metals education 🤣
Very good documentary indeed. Well done and thank you for sharing it. Your prognosis for rapid increase in use for fuel cells may however be premature. Hydrogen fuel cells are unlikely to gain much traction in the automotive and power generation industries as Li-Ion batteries have proven to be more reliable, and far cheaper (and increasingly so). In terms of power generation, solar is now the cheapest form of electrical generation, and getting cheaper. Wind follows a close second. Coupled with Li-Ion mega-pack batteries, the unsubsidised marginal cost of 1kwh is now less than 2US cents - and getting even cheaper.
So... platinum is unlikely to be in such high demand from around 2028/30 - and demand will decrease exponentially when ICE automobiles become redundant - probably between 2030 and 2035.
Someone drank the coolaid.
Thanks for the comment, although based on the research I have done wind and solar are so incredibly inefficient I'm not sure they'll have a big future as sources of energy.
This channel needs way more subs.
Thank you!
I love this metal.
Thank you very much for your time and effort you put into the all of the detail in this video
We was also pleasantly surprised how you were willing to incorporate our God of ALL gods into the video
Thanks again and may God bless you
Thank you but I'm not religious, although I believe in a higher power and creator of the universe. I was referring to God in the history section as it would have been the widely-held belief of the characters in the story.
Good Video! Fan of platinum here.
Glad you enjoyed it!
As jewellry shop owner i can say one thing this metal is one of the hardest to work whit and to make it shine 😅
@Jonathan Parker hahaha i feel u 😭
Tell me about it! The majority of my work is plat, total pain in the arse
Good to get some insight from someone who works with platinum, thank you!
Nice documentary!
That was good and enjoyed it. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Platinum is even less reactive than gold and used as catalyst more often. The only reason why gold is more expensive because of Human emotional and cultural reason (it is easier to use gold as currency due to its relative abundance). Hence higher trading volume leads to higher price.
Awesome video 👏🏻😎✨
I like it so much 😎👍⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you my biggest supporter!
great work on every level
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Thank you very much!
in 1998 some americans had come to my grandfather’s village, they want to ask permission from my grandfather to be allowed to dig something in my grandfather’s land area, the american scientist promised a wage of a sum of money worth 1billions and will distribute 15 buffaloes to the villagers, but fortunately my grandfather rejected it because he felt something was wrong. only yesterday I got to know from my mother, She said the american scientists came to my grandfather’s village because they wanted to take the platinum that was in my grandfather’s land area. despite being persuaded by american scientists my grandfather reject their offers.
That's an incredible story, thanks for sharing!
Very interesting history. Many thanks
Regards from South Africa
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Hey, not too bad of a documentary . I learned that it was probably nickel miners ,not gold miners that lead to modern discovery of platinum , it would stick to their drilling rods ,making a "pain in the rear end" equipment clean-up situation . It was first named "platinum" in the late 1700s. Iron is pronounced as "I-earn" . Platinum ,palladium ,ruthenium ,rhodium ,iridium and osmium are the platinum group elements/ metals.
Platinum or palladium oxides are normally what are used for catalytic conversions . Exposure to alcohol vapors and similar distillate vapors ( like gasoline ) causes the oxides to super heat and ignite the distillate . In that state it Is " trying" to reconvert itself to a metallic state by replacing the oxides and a metallic reconversion , there are actually minable amounts of platinum and palladium metal dust on busy streets from this process happening in the converters .
@Commodity Culture they were definitely spanish ! I'd imagine as with most everything else, the stories were probably from multiple sources in various Spanish mines . I actually like platinum the best out of the precious metals , but that doesn't mean everything I learned is correct and I am sure that I don't know everything about it...Far from.
Thanks for the information. According to my research, it was the Spanish conquistadors who discovered it while mining gold but I'm sure there's other viable possibilities.
cool video and concept. i see this being big!
Thank you very much!
Platinum is common Durable metal in Rings. My 2nd Wife’s Wedding Ring was Platinum and far more $$$ than Gold and Silver.
Первые платиновые монеты были отчеканены в России в 1828 году! (The first platinum coins were minted in Russia in 1828!)
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That's awesome I didn't know that!
How come platinum is cheaper than gold even though it's more rare?
AMAZING video!
@Steve0504 I agree, it's just a matter of time. The difficult part is knowing when.
@Based Mushroom Silver's move to a purely industrial metal is indeed possible. From the monetary side, the game-changer would be big institutions starting to invest in physical.
@Commodity Culture Interesting, I wonder if silver will rise or fall in this case because I'm pretty sure silver will not become tomorrows money, and it seems like it's becoming more of an industrial metal as time moves forward.
Thank you! I think it's because platinum has never been used as money and so is strictly for jewelry and industrial use.
Space based mining will bring even more Pt, Ir, Au, Pd, and other valuable elements :)
Space based mining seems quite a ways off, unless there's some developments I'm not aware of.
Make a video on extraction process and machinery involved
Just started stacking it, might as well learn about it....nice video.
@George Campbell Precious metals are a store of wealth rather than an investment.
Platinum cost $450 /oz in 1983. Today it is around $950/oz. If you'd invested that same $450 in 1983 in Apple stock, you'd have a million dollars. Precious metals are horrible long term investments.
Thank you, glad you found some value here.
Nice. I've wanted to learn more about platinum
Glad you found the video useful.
I think platinum is more useful than gold. I saw a photo of platinum crucibles that was made in 1860 or thereabouts and still in use in a UK university.
It is definitely WAY more useful than gold as an industrial commodity.
Undervalued metal for sure.
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Agreed 🤝
Very informative
Glad it was helpful!
I don't need Platinum, I need Star Platinum!
Great job narrating this very interesting episode.☀️⛅🌥️🌦️☁️🌨️⛈️🌩️🌧️🌦️🌥️⛅🌤️🌞
Thank you!
Good 👍 job.
Beautiful
I've panned platinum out of the Rios Santiago and Esmereldas. Right where the Conquistadores found it.
Wow really? That's awesome.
So, how much is platinum compared to gold?
I love these.
Thank you!
Nice video ... ! ❤ it
Thank you so much 😀
You did not mention that the gas that platinum gives off when melted is highly toxic. Very dangerous to work with, fume hoods a necessity.
Yes,platinosis is deadly. If you want a précis of how it is smelted on a small scale, check out sreetips on YT.
I was not aware of that, just looked into it. Thank you for mentioning that fact.
Weld Tex and the gas shield types was all completed! Thanks
I noticed that everyone accumulate silver and gold but not platinum or palladium... How weird
@Andrew Field time stamp ?
What does "stacks" mean in this context? Collects? I don't speak American terribly well.
@wow shorts oh no for shure u will have to look for someone that is into it... I only have one platinum coin got it at the beginning of 2022 1/2oz always wanted one.. maybe one day al trade it for gold or something else worth it.. but yes platinum and palladium and silver look alike in metals and dealers sometimes don't belive its platinum or palladium so u have to give prof where u got it from paper work or something..
I think platinum and palladium is not easy to sell
Palladium is valuable days, but it’s lower on the periodic table than Silver. Silver is rather cheap, cost not more than 30.00 an ounce, whereas palladium is over 2,000.00 an ounce
Truth is, gold is almost double the price of platinum now a days.
It's an anomaly in history. Platinum has historically been worth more than gold and only rarely is worth less.
Thank you for this video
Thanks for watching!
platinum was more expensive than gold and it felt down below gold when it was anounced that someone found platinum to be in asteroids....
I think I’d like to buy a platinum coin just as an investment, you never know when the price could rise greatly
Nothing wrong with that, but I would call it speculating, not investing.
Interesting!
Imagine throwing away tonnes of Platinum as waste byproduct? 😂
Yeah seems insane today haha
great video
Thank you!
What process is happening at 4:53 when the melt in the background seems to be shaking?
I don't know exactly but it appears to be a laboratory process involving heated crucibles. I got it from a stock footage library.
Platinum isn't hard! its a soft metal with a 4-4.5 on the MOHs scale of hardness! I dont know where you heard it was a hard metal resistant to scratches...
@Commodity Culture No problems buddy!
You are correct on the MOHs, from what I understand that means all metals with a higher rating could scratch it so it appears I misspoke. Thank you for pointing it out.
is this good for jewelries?
Good video. Fact check, Isaac Newton was born well after it was proved the world was flat and the majority believed the world to be round well before that, the Greeks even proved it using Geometry.
Yes, I made a mistake there. Thanks for watching!
500 kilogram platinum var ve mükemmel ler önemli alıçı olursa sataçagım
Platinum takes almost double the time to finish in jewellery and has to be soldered with welding glasses on. If it loses it’s precious appeal due to the decrease in price its stuffed because the labour necessary at the jewellery bench will make it economically unsustainable.
Interesting observation. Apparently platinum demand for jewelry was 25% of total supply in 2021, a massive number so you have a point.
Platinum is half the price of gold and is 15x rarer
Shhhhhhh
Platinum is awesome makes the world go around
We know
@Commodity Culture in the same time how many new cars produced as a percentage will be ev?
Platinum is plenty to the Phillipines ,iridium, nickel cobalt ,chromium ,silver ,gold , manganese ,iron .
what do you think of spyrospanopoulos and the new fuel cells?
I am not familiar with that so I can't comment. Thanks for watching!
Platinum is NERVE racking to work with 😳💵💢🥴 unreal how much money solvents cost 😳
Someone else made the same comment, thanks for the information.
9:08 response quoted from Wikipedia:
"The myth of the flat Earth, or the flat-Earth error, is a modern historical misconception that European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat."
"According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat Earth darkness' among scholars, regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now. Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the Earth's roundness as an established fact of cosmology." Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference".
Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-Earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over biological evolution. Russell claims "with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat","
Several have clarified this, appreciate it.
As a side note, I'd like to make a small correction (irrelevant to the main subject). Almost no one in the 1700s (or even the 1400s when Columbus lived) believed that the Earth was flat (certainly not educated people). Ulloa took part in the French Geodesic Mission of 1735 with the goal of performing an arc measurement, measuring the length of a degree of latitude near the Equator, by which the Earth radius at the equatorial plane could be inferred. The ultimate purpose of the mission was to confirm the suspicion that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but had a greater circumference at the equator. Also, Newton was dead for more than a decade by that time.
The myth about most people believing the Earth was flat during these times has been long held but in the last decade it has started to die down. It is gradually becoming common knowledge to more and more school students that even during Columbus' time no one doubted* the fact that the Earth was round**. More facts concerning the French geodesic mission which brought Ulloa to the Americas can be be accessed via a wikipedia search.
* The argument between Columbus and his critics was about the size of the Earth. They correctly pointed out that assuming (by everyone,, inlcuding Columbus himself) that only an ocean lies between the westernmost point of Europe and the easternmost point of Asia, its length would be so vast that they would ran out of potable water. Lucky for him an entire unknown continent existed in his path, which saved his and his crews' life.
** In fact since at least since the Hellenistic period in antiquity all educated people knew that the Earth is spherical. Eratosthenes in 200BC(!) actually measured the circumference of the planet with surprising accuracy using a very simple and smart methodology.
If you did not research on the matter and ended up propagating misinformation... how are we to trust that you did research the rest of the video? Please, avoid saying things in videos unless you research them!
@Filippos Koliopanos Thank you very much for the kind words and appreciate the subscription! I will try to be more cautious in getting everything right moving forward, though a few things will be bound to slip between the cracks.
@Commodity Culture You have a point there. I guess what bugged me most was that this small part of the video unwittingly contributes to the long held belief that people thought the Earth was flat up until the time* of Columbus. In fact since at least the Hellenistic period in antiquity all educated people knew that the Earth is spherical. Eratosthenes in 200BC(!) actually measured the circumference of the planet with surprising accuracy using a very simple and smart methodology.
That said, the fact that you care to interact with you audience's comments tells me that you are serious about your channel and did not just throw a quick and inaccurate narration over a hastily made video just to scrape views. I have now watched a few more of your videos and their quality is obvious. I will edit my initial comment just to provide the additional info, without the criticism. It's now unjustified as it no longer reflects my opinion on the video or your channel and I wouldn't want to take away from your effort. And especially I do not want to discourage you from making similar historical videos about elements in the future. There is not a lot of info about this subject out there and I am confident your videos will eventually get the views they deserve. I for one have now subscribed to your channel.
Thanks for clarifying, the reason I didn't research much about the purpose of the expedition is that it had such a small bearing on the subject at hand, the discovery of platinum as an element.
I think it’s the best for jewelry
By the 18th century, most people navigating a ship understood that the Earth wasn't flat. The spherical Earth model had already been proven scientifically.
The purpose of the French expedition was to infer if the Earth’s shape was prolate or oblate. That is, what type of ellipsoid it was.
Sorry, that was pretty ridiculous in this video... The earth has been circumnavigated many times before Newton was born! The earth was known to be a sphere for two thousand years!
@M The video says the 18th century voyage was involved with proving the Earth was a sphere and it said that up until that point in history, the idea of a flat Earth was popular.
Duh
Factual as it is , that groups o've metals are found in an ore specimen ( this case the Iron specimen ) in a minimal content including Gold , the none, Periodic Table knowledge is ; that o've , " it's natural intended composition " . The ore which Jehovah God through His ability in creating this earth for us , in time is expels from or is found with in a deposit through out our earth A Gold deposit for example contains , Silver , Copper , and Iron fragments within its natural state of composition . Copper in it's compose original form contains fragments o've Gold, Silver, Iron . Like wise is noted for Silver . The combination o've all metals makes a perfect Alloy for multiple applications ! With the introduction and assistance o've chemicals , a separation o've the corresponding metals is achived rendering a more abundant use of the different content metals within ! The reason that silver tarnishes so much is caused by the stripping o've the fragments mentioned here tin hat makes up it's natural composition form ! Like wise , copper roofs offer's a very elegant touch to a building or a home especially luxury ones , though soon an unpleased emotion for many owners takes part after it retains a dull and many instances a musty green hue . Engagement rings for instance in markets throughout , are sold mostly in hues o've Pink , Black , White Gold , or Platinum jewelry in contrast to a natural Gold , Iron , Copper or Silver jewelry for instance in form o've 10k , 14k, 18k, and 22k respecting their origanal form . The hoax as to giving all value and glory to the Gold specimen ore , has proven unnecessary concidering that it's content is found in every foods we consume including cattle , which with the aid of chemical the menerials mentioned here in can be extracted profusely ! I need shoes !
Ok if Elon wants to buy this I’ll be part owner with 50 billion USD shib to program world weather disastrous to help families rebuild their homes .
Great video man but come on, no one pronounces iron like that
I'm sorry but at 4:10 it is neither the hardest nor the rarest of the PGMs. Ir, Rh, Ru & Os are all harder AND rarer
I wish I had a big chunk of it.
You and me both!
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Can sombody explain why our bodies or a catle for that matter , consist of iron , copper , silver , gold , magnisium but not platinum ? Also , if it's that valuable or if it had its present dating back to the Egyptian monarch era , why the elaboration of a false god reprsented by a calf was made out of gold and not platinum ? Also when Daniel depicts in the bible the statue of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar it reflects a head of gold a chest of silver a torso of copper and feet of clay mixed with iron ? Where is platinum in the bible mentioned ? Platinum is a man-made alloy with combinations of steel, magnesium , lead and verry little to no silver these days ! The artifact in Peru labled platinum now , do contain more silver in them but, little gold , steel however mostly lead ( Lead mentioned in the bible and used in that era and today by peasants for meal preparing tuperware ) where exchanged and brought by the Spaniard which in many cases depicted tribal leaders that did not have a clue about shoes or sandals much less to the riches of gold in their surroundings . They were mesmerized by the Spaniard Jewelry craftsmen's ability to carve the soften lead to resemble a Machupicchu tribal leader or wife that shine like gold in their initial form ! Noting a peasant craftmen today in Bangladesh ellaborating copper bangles , one can reach a conclusion how the Sapniard craftmen would gold plate the metal artifacts without any harsh chemicals or the aid of an electro conducive anode ! Today's Paltinum , No Gold No Silver ! Just good old Steel , Magnesium ( Manganese ) , and Lead ( zinc ) ! Just like Aluminum Platinum is a man-compositioned Alloy ! Such ellaborations does not make the alloy inferior for Jehovah God gave man the ability to resemble his creativity !
Thank you for the comment. However, platinum is naturally occuring along with the other platinum metals group.
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If you had left out religion & concentrated on hard, scientific fact this would have been, "for me" rather more enjoyable, It was interesting to learn of the importance of Platinum in our modern world.
Glad you found part of it interesting but I'm a little confused because there is basically no mention of religion at all, aside from a few mentions of God in the history section.
Thank you
Somewhat interesting but the numerous mispronunciations of common English words bring into doubt the accuracy of the presentation. The most bizarre was the narrators pronunciation of Iron as I-ron. "Placer" is pronounced with long 'a", not a short 'a', etc. throughout. The narrator sounds to be a native English speaker, just not a very well educated one.
What a cheery fellow you are.
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Realy I like this video so much
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where can i find a miner / miner operator job in Los Angeles
Interesting
How and where to sell paltinum
I have mine where 30% platinum is found
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I did in fact enjoy this vid
Thank you!
А так это всё не сложить!!!
What makes platinum to the strong procces in the lab..?
Higher density and probably higher melting point
neat!
Mouth fulla platinum, mouth fulla gold. 😬 40 cal puts your mouth on hold 🎵
3:15 this is Galapagos, Isla Bartolomé
Nice