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Platinum

Z: 78
Mass: 195.084
Lifeforce: Earth

Inside every car's exhaust works a metal rarer than gold: it turns poison into harmless gas, and doesn't even tarnish while doing it.

A terraced slope with laid stone foundations and visible roots; a figure sets a stone in place. — Plate · Earth Earth never hurries. It *holds*, stone by stone, whatever is meant to last.

Platinum. Element seventy-eight. Rarer than gold. Never tarnishes. Catalyzes the reaction inside every car’s exhaust, turning poison into harmless gas.

Lab note · Atomic number 78; rarer than gold, never tarnishes.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

Pt · Neutron stars

Forged in the collision of neutron stars, among the rarest events in the cosmos. Older than the Sun.

8 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

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