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MR. ERNEST A. SMITH has produced a useful little work upon platinum and the metals associated with it, though it must be admitted that the latter receive but little, most people will probably say too little, attention. Some of them, such as iridium and palladium, deserve considerably more consideration than the book before us has given to them. Upon the whole the work may be described as accurate, although the author has not availed himself so fully as he might have done of previously published and readily available information. For example, his description of methods used in the Urals for working and washing the platiniferous gravels shows a good many omissions, which a more careful study of existing literature would have avoided.
The Platinum Metals.
By Ernest A. Smith. (Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries Series.) Pp. xii + 123. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1925.) 3s. net.
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The Platinum Metals . Nature 116, 275 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116275b0
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