A HISTORY OF PLATINUM AND ITS ALLIED METALS - Donald McDonald and Leslie B Hunt

Published by Johnson Matthey, 1982

Hardcover with jacket in good condition. This is a presentation copy to Brig. CF Coetzee to commemorate the opening of the Johnson Matthey Germiston South Site and has his signature in the book. 

This book ".provides a detailed record of the rumours of the discovery of platinum during the seventeenth century, of the investigations carried out by many distinguished scientists in England, Sweden, Germany, France and Spain and their frustrating attempts to bring about its melting, and then of its successful production in malleable and useful form and its growing range of industrial applications." 

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