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The first platinum to be subjected to experimental investigation was brought to England in 1741 by Charles Wood, an assayer from Jamaica. He determined that the metal could not be fused by the force of any fire then available, formed low-melting alloys with several metals, and had a density similar to that of gold. His results were communicated in 1750 to the Royal Society of London by William Watson and later were published in the Philosophical Transactions (6). This publication sparked interest throughout Europe, for the discovery of a new noble metal was as much a surprise to chemists as the discovery of the new planet Uranus by Herschel was to be to astronomers 30 years later. 

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