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Spongy platinum
Spongy Spon"gy, a. 1. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones. 2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. ``Spongy April.' --Shak. 3. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge. Spongy lead (Chem.), sponge lead. See under Sponge. Spongy platinum. See under Platinum.

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- Edmund William Davy. Edmund Davy was the first to discover a spongy form of platinum with remarkable gas absorptive properties. Justus Liebig later...
- Century Witchcraft. Laird & Lee. pp. 106-107. The "coal" is a piece of spongy platinum which bears a close resemblance to a lump of half burnt coal, and is...
- vapors over spongy platinum or prolonged heating of platinum and phosphorus in a vacuum ampoule at 570 °C: Pt + 2P → PtP2 Also, by reducing platinum(II) acetylacetonate...
- Witchcraft. Laird & Lee, Publishers. pp. 106-107. "The "coal" is a piece of spongy platinum which bears a close resemblance to a lump of half burnt coal, and is...
- Raney nickel /ˈreɪniː ˈnɪkəl/, also called spongy nickel, is a fine-grained solid composed mostly of nickel derived from a nickel–aluminium alloy. Several...
- interest mainly in the research context. Ammonium amalgam is a grey, soft, spongy m**** discovered in 1808 by Humphry Davy and Jöns Jakob Berzelius. It decomposes...
- (NH4)2[IrCl6], which can be reduced to iridium metal in a stream of hydrogen. The spongy Ir thus produced reacts with chlorine at 650 °C to give iridium(III) chloride...
- copper(II) sulfate can be electrolyzed with a copper cathode and platinum/graphite anode to give spongy copper at cathode and evolution of oxygen gas at the anode...
- elemental silicon with very pure zinc metal as the reducing agent. The spongy pieces of silicon thus produced are melted and then grown to form cylindrical...
- are often formed into metal sponge, such as palladium black, platinum sponge, and spongy nickel. Metals such as osmium and palladium hydride are metaphorically...