Platinum in the Old World

1) Pierre E. M. Berthelot (1827-1907) was a distinguished French chemist, who had made many notable achievements in organic chemistry and within education. In 1889 he succeeded Louis 

Pasteur as the permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. In the period 1895-96 he also was the French Foreign Minister. 

Were plumbum album and adamas perhaps platinum  

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