Show cheaper platinum platinum made to order will be a blessing to those who are buying it now at nearly five dollars an ounce the electricians dentists chemists and machinists the new metal which will sell for at least half that amount is of grayish white hue with a specific gravity and atomic weight about the same as platinum it fuses at about 3 degrees fahren belt and Is malleable and ductile becoming soft and workable at a tern pera ture far below the melting point it can be used in making crucibles and similar utensils for laboratory use and it is not affected by acids having successfully success tully passed the tests made by a number of chemists with sulphuric and other strong acids it can be rolled into sheets or made into wire of the thickness of a small traction of an inch A baltimore man is its inventor |