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platinum.7z is a 2.9 GB, password-protected archive that first surfaced online on . It was shared anonymously on the /ppg/ (Pokémon Proto General) board of 4chan, part of a trio of leaked archives that collectively became known as the "Nintendo Gigaleak". platinum.7z

It was not until the 18th century that platinum began to be studied seriously. In 1741, the British metallurgist Charles Wood obtained samples from Jamaica and sent them to the Royal Society. Antonio de Ulloa, a Spanish explorer, published the first detailed description of the metal in 1748, though he had encountered it earlier. In 1750, the Swedish chemist Henrik Theophil Scheffer demonstrated that platinum was a new metal, not an alloy of gold and iron. The existence of platinum

Platinum is dense, ductile, and malleable. A single ounce (31.1 grams) can be drawn into a wire over 1,500 meters long or hammered into a foil only 0.00025 mm thick. Its silvery-white color does not fade or tarnish, even after centuries of exposure to air or moisture. It has a high coefficient of thermal expansion (similar to soda-lime glass), making it ideal for sealing into glass apparatus in scientific instruments. It was not until the 18th century that

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Alchemists never identified platinum; it was too refractory to be melted by their furnaces. Had they known it, they might have called it “white gold” or considered it a material of the moon. Some modern spiritual traditions assign platinum to the crown chakra, representing high spiritual vibration and incorruptibility.