Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., a prefix signifying the presence of platinum with apparently dyad valence: as, potassium platinochlorid, K2PtCl4, also called potassium chloroplatinite.
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Examples
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The opposite end of the box is a piece of board coated with a salt such as platino-barium cyanide.
The Silent Bullet 1908
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The opposite end of the box is a piece of board coated with a salt such as platino-barium cyanide.
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The potassium platino-chloride (K_ {2} PtCl_ {6}) is calculated to potassium chloride (KCl) by using the factor 0.3052, and this figure deducted from the amount of mixed chlorides found, gives the amount of sodium chloride (NaCl), from which the sodium oxide (Na_ {2} O) is obtained by multiplying by 0.52991.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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Then I found the shelf on the side next the tube, and then the sheet of paper prepared with barium platino-cyanide.
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From the weight of potassium platino-chloride, K_ {2} PtCl_ {6}, is calculated the amount of potassium oxide K_ {2} O by the use of the factor 94/488.2 or 0.19254.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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As an example of stepping backward, I may refer to what the newspapers have described as the "discoveries" of Mr. Edison, or the use of an incandescent wire, or stick, or sheet of platinum, or platino-iridium; or a thread of carbon, of which the "Swan" and other modern lights are rival modifications.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there.
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Three aluminium rods (Fig. 63), each about 25 cm. long and carrying a piece of 0.015 gauge platino-iridium wire 7.5 cm. in length.
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The picture itself being formed by solid pigments, such as are used in printer's ink or painter's colors, there is no possibility of its fading or changing color, which cannot be said even of platino prints, at present considered the most lasting of all photo-chemical processes.
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The compound is a mixture of platino - or platinidcyanide of mercury and mercurous nitrate.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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