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- Volume 12
- Issue 4
- Oct 1968
- Pages 142-145
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The First Platinum Refiners
THE FRENCH GOLDSMITHS AND THE ARSENIC PROCESS
- Donald McDonald
- Platinum Metals Rev.,
- 1968,
- 12,
- (4),
- 142
Article Synopsis
Credit must undoubtedly be given to the arsenic process of removing base metals from native platinum, and principally to its practice by Janety, the Master Goldsmith of Paris, in the years just before and during the French Revolution for leading to the first real exploitation of platinum as an industrial metal and for enabling its properties to be fully appreciated.
