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  Platinum
Platinum, together with palladium and rhodium, are primary elements in autocalysts that control vehicle exhausts emissions of hydro-carbons, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and particulate.
Platinum is used in fertilizers and explosives as a gauze for the catalytic conversion of ammonia to nitric acid.
Platinum is used as a refining catalyst in the petroleum industry.
r0.unctad.org /infocomm/anglais/platinum/uses.htm   (903 words)

  
 USGS Minerals Information: Platinum-Group Metals
Platinum, platinum alloys, and iridium are used as crucible materials for the growth of single crystals, especially oxides.
The chemical industry uses a significant amount of either platinum or a platinum-rhodium alloy catalyst in the form of gauze to catalyze the partial oxidation of ammonia to yield nitric oxide, which is the raw material for fertilizers, explosives, and nitric acid.
Platinum supported catalysts are used in the refining of crude oil, reforming, and other processes used in the production of high-octane gasoline and aromatic compounds for the petrochemical industry.
minerals.usgs.gov /minerals/pubs/commodity/platinum   (339 words)

  
 Aaliyah
Her album Age Ain't Nothing but a Number was released and went platinum status in the United States when she was 15, thanks to the popular singles "At Your Best (You Are Love)," "Back And Forth," and the title track.
Her (Double-Platinum) sophomore album, One In A Million, was produced by then-unknowns Timbaland and Missy Elliott and was released in late 1996.
The plane crash that killed her occurred when she was returning from shooting a music video for "Rock the Boat," the album's second single, in the Bahamas in 2001.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/aa/aaliyah.html   (621 words)

  
 Platinum Capital Management -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Platinum's expertise in the research, development and implementation of unique alternative investment products and services derives from the 300+ years of aggregate investment experience of Platinum professionals.
Platinum funds were among the first hedge funds approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Because Platinum is at the cutting edge of alternative investments, senior management is often quoted in international media and asked to speak at conferences.
www.platinumfunds.net   (307 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions: All About Elvis
Existing gold and platinum award-winners continue to be upgraded as appropriate (upgrades do not change the total number of titles) and new first-time gold and platinum certifications continue to be awarded.
Elvis' RIAA gold and platinum certifications are designated using today's requirements for certification: gold single or album - 500,000 copies sold; platinum single or album - 1 million copies sold.
In the era when singles were big sellers, the standard was 1 million copies for a gold single; 2 million copies for platinum single.
www.elvis.com /elvisology/faq/faq.asp?qid=8   (914 words)

  
 Braided Platinum and Gold Combination Wedding Bands
Platinum is also a very hard metal which makes these wedding bands the strongest we make.
Platinum Braid with a single gold strand wound through the center.
It features two 14k gold rope strands twisting through the center of four platinum strands that are weaving in and around the gold.
www.handwovenbands.com /platinumgoldmix.htm   (835 words)

  
 Lucky Day goes gold in North America - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers sold platinum in 1991 with Conscious Party, and four years later their album for Virgin Records; One Bright Day was certified gold.
That single sold platinum (one million units sold) and was certified as such by the Recording Association of America (RIAA) in 1994.
Diana King's single Shy Guy was certified gold in 1995, while her album Tougher Than Love went gold that year as well.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20030103t000000-0500_37509_obs_lucky_day_goes_gold_in_north_america.asp   (399 words)

  
 CHART: Australia - end of year - 2004
This single went double platinum and ended up as the second biggest seller of 2004, while her follow-up, "Sick And Tired" was a top 10 smash and was the 51st highest selling single of 2004.
If the single was in the chart prior to the beginning of 2004, then weeks spent in the charts of previous years is also included to give a full picture of the single's charting life-span rather than imposing artificial boundaries of charting success at the beginning and end of years.
Singles with incomplete chart runs as marked as "still charting", although some of those singles may actually be at the end of their chart run if they don't appear in the first new chart of 2005.
www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/aus.music/messages/80151.html   (6515 words)

  
 First report of clean transition metal surface reconstruction.
Molecular Beam Study of the Mechanism of Catalyzed H2-D2 Exchange on Platinum Single Crystal Surfaces, S.L. Bernasek and G.A. Somorjai, J. Chem.
Surface Debye Temperature of the (100), (111), and (110) Faces of Platinum (H.B. Lyon and G.A. Somorjai), J. Chem.
The Strong Influence of Potassium on the Adsorption of CO on Platinum Surfaces.
www.cchem.berkeley.edu /~gasgrp/rf.html   (2501 words)

  
 MRC CTU - Ovarian MA
To evaluate single drugs versus combinations of drugs, platinum versus non-platinum, and carboplatin versus cisplatin-based chemotherapy on survival outcomes in women with advanced ovarian cancer in the pre-paclitaxel era and to assess whether any pre-defined patient subgroups benefit more or less from chemotherapy.
The overall HR of 0.88 favours the addition of platinum and is marginally significant (p = 0.02).
Data were available from all 12 eligible trials which compared cisplatin and carboplatin either as single agents or each in combination with the same drugs in multi-drug regimens.
www.ctu.mrc.ac.uk /studies/ovarianMA.asp   (774 words)

  
 Chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer (Cochrane Review)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The objective of this review was to compare single drugs versus combinations of drugs, platinum versus non-platinum, and carboplatin versus cisplatin-based chemotherapy in women with advanced ovarian cancer.
For single non-platinum versus platinum combination chemotherapy the overall HR for survival was 0.93, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.83 to1.05 favouring platinum-based combination chemotherapy.
Single platinum compared with platinum combination gave a HR of 0.91, 95% CI 0.79 to 1.05 favouring combination chemotherapy.
www.cochrane.org /cochrane/revabstr/ab001418.htm   (482 words)

  
 MaTecK GmbH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Platinum is used in jewellery, anti-cancer drugs, catalysts an catalytic convertors.
Platinum implants are generally tolerated by the body.
platinum ore; some platinum is extracted as a by-product of copper and nickel refining.
www.mateck.de /MeSiCrys/e24e.asp   (128 words)

  
 Is There a "Best" Choice of Second-Line Agent in the Treatment of Recurrent, Potentially Platinum-Sensitive Ovarian ...
platinum analogs are still the most active class of drugs for
Markman M, Rothman R, Hakes T, et al: Second-line platinum therapy in patients with ovarian cancer previously treated with cisplatin.
Rose PG, Fusco N, Fluellen L, et al: Second-line therapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin for recurrent disease after first-line therapy with paclitaxel and platinum in ovarian or peritoneal carcinoma.
www.jco.org /cgi/content/full/20/5/1158   (2079 words)

  
 Billboard News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Monica's "The Boy is Mine," released on July 14,1998 is certified 2X platinum.
Platinum single certifications are awarded for 1 million units, with additional millions of sales as noted.
The single, "The Is Boy Mine" w/brandy released on May 5, 1998 went multi-platinum 2X on July 20,1998.
www.angelfire.com /hi2/monicaarnold/page176.html   (193 words)

  
 Jack Georges Flap Over Briefcases Platinum Single Gusset Flap Over #JG8414   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Platinum Single Gusset Flap Over #JG8414 is a Business Case by Jack Georges
Platinum Single Gusset Flap with Combination Lock #JG8421 is a Leather Briefcase by Jack Georges
Platinum Triple Gusset Flap with Combination Lock #JG8423 is a Leather Briefcase by Jack Georges
www.blte.net /103592875/index1121.html   (544 words)

  
 CHART: Australian top 50 singles (27/12/2004 - 2/1/2005)
It shipped 3-times platinum, with over 210,000 copies bought by record stores across the nation, however its first week sales to consumers totalled less than 35,000 copies.
We saw last week that runner-up Anthony Callea debuted at number one with "The Prayer" which is a good achievement considering the single was only on sale for 3 days and during that period roughly equalled 7 days worth of sales of winner Casey Donovan's single.
Despite the obvious frantic sales of albums and singles this week, actual chart movements are minimal due to the lack of new releases.
www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/aus.music/messages/80134.html   (2309 words)

  
 Polaroid Spectra Platinum Single (10)
Platinum film is the highest quality film ever made!
This film is specially designed to bring more color and greater sharpness to your photographs, faster than ever before.
This is a general purpose, high speed, medium contrast, integral film for high definition instant color prints.
www.adorama.com /PDSPS.html   (90 words)

  
 Recording Industry Association of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The year's first multi-Platinum single is LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live," which hit triple- Platinum, becoming the first Country single ever to reach multi-Platinum status.
The single is currently certified at four million units.
In the singles category, Boyz II Men's "A Song For Mamma" marks their seventh Platinum single on Motown Records.
www.riaa.com /news/newsletter/press1998/032898.asp   (558 words)

  
 25th anniversary
The single, "Auld Lang Syne (The Millennium Mix),'' has become the season's anthem as it explodes at every radio format across the country and detonates the album as it rockets to #7 on the charts.
TLC returned tough and strong with the Platinum "Creep" (#1 pop for four weeks; #1 R&B for nine weeks) from their biggest album, CrazySexyCool, more than 11 million copies sold to date; both the single and album won R&B Grammys for 1995.
After the Platinum single release "Hypnotize" in April, Puffy followed-up immediately with "I'll Be Missing You" in June, a tribute to his best friend featuring Ma$e and Faith Evans (in a re-working of the 1983 Police hit, "Every Breath You Take").
www.aristarec.com /aristaweb/about_25thanniversary.html   (7090 words)

  
 Recording Industry Association of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The year's first Platinum music video is also certified this month.
In the singles category, Janet Jackson achieves her 18th Gold single to date for "Together Again," outpacing all other female solo artists.
The first Platinum music video of the year is "Rage Against The Machine," on Sony Music Video.
www.riaa.com /news/newsletter/press1998/013098.asp   (473 words)

  
 Aaron Carter Article #0291   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Since it's release on September 26, the CD has remained firmly planted in the top 40 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart.
The commercial single for the title track "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)," has already been certified Gold by the RIAA.
A limited edition commercial single for "That's How I Beat Shaq" will be released on January 30.
www.angelfire.com /pop2/ac_articles/0291.html   (271 words)

  
 Recording Industry Association of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Developed to recognize the significant sales of the burgeoning digital music market, 45 titles were included in the initial group of certifications, encompassing tracks from each major recording company and representing nearly every genre in music.
Among the highlights were the three titles certified by hip-hop duo Outkast including “Roses” (Gold and Platinum), “The Way You Move” (Gold and Platinum) and their smash “Hey Ya!” (Gold, Platinum and multi-Platinum).
As with the existing Gold and Platinum award program, all certifications for the Digital Sales award are audited by the firm of Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman.
www.riaa.com /news/newsletter/102704.asp   (645 words)

  
 1980
The Structure Sensitivity of Cyclohexane Dehydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis Catalyzed by Platinum Single Crystals at Atmospheric Pressure, R.K. Herz, W.D. Gillespie, E.E. Petersen, and G.A. Somorjai, J.
The Growth and Chemisorptive Properties of Ag and Au Monolayers on Platinum Single Crystal Surfaces: An AES, TDS, and LEED Study, P.W. Davies, M. Quinlan, and G.A. Somorjai, Surf.
The Adsorption and Coadsorption of Sulfur and Carbon Monoxide on Rhenium Single Crystal Surfaces, D.G. Kelly, A.J. Gellman, M.
www.cchem.berkeley.edu /~gasgrp/1980.html   (7062 words)

  
 PLATINUM technology SIMPLIFIES SECURITY ADMINISTRATION WITH LDAP DIRECTORY-BASED AUTOSECURE SINGLE S - erpsurvival.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This integration enables security administrators to perform single sign on administration functions from a single point, for all users in a given group, and also enables administration of very large numbers of users.
About PLATINUM PLATINUM technology, inc. provides a unique set of software and services that help IT organizations work better by improving performance and reducing the risk in their IT infrastructures.
All PLATINUM technology, inc. product names and product category names are trademarks of PLATINUM technology, inc. Other company names and product names referenced herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective corporation.
www.erpsurvival.com /content/view/7618/2   (3246 words)

  
 COLL 445 - New results from laser-induced temperature jump studies of gold and platinum single-crystal electrodes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
From a proper analysis of the temperature coefficient of the potential drop at the metalsolution interface it is possible to obtain a relative measurement of the entropy of formation of the double layer.
We have applied this method to extract thermodynamic information about the electrochemical double layer in contact with platinum and gold single-crystal electrodes.
For platinum single crystals, the temperature coefficient of the double layer have been measured for the first time.
membership.acs.org /c/coll/neworleans/P596436.HTM   (231 words)

  
 Shop for Benchmark Wedding Rings Single Diamond Platinum Band at BillBarnes.com
This benchmark wedding band is beautifully made in platinum.
This comfort fit wedding band has a striking design with a single bezel set diamond in the very center.
This platinum wedding bandr is sure to delight on the hand.
www.billbarnes.com /product.asp?Product=7324   (183 words)

  
 Meet Single Woman. Platinum Select - The Number 1 Introduction Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
With over 200,000 people in Britain alone being members of some form of dating or introduction service we provide an important role in everyday life and you wil join hundreds and hundreds of other satisfied happy people.
Platinum Select is where you will find more than just a pretty face.
If you would like any further information, about our company, or the services we provide, then please do not hesitate to contact us.
www.platinumselect.com /Meet_Single_Woman.htm   (150 words)

  
 Gold & Platinum Records: All About Elvis
Following is a list of the 150 Elvis albums, singles and extended-plays whose American sales, as of January 2005, have received gold, platinum or multi-platinum designations from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
This list of certifications is based upon current standards: 500,000 copies for a gold single or album, 1 million copies for a platinum single or album.
Further explanation of the status of Elvis' record sales and gold and platinum record award certifications is found in the Elvis FAQ section of our web site.
www.elvis.com /elvisology/elvis_records.asp   (572 words)

  
 No.7 Full Diamond Set Wedding Ring : Portfolio : Form Bespoke Jewellery Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Fully Diamond Set Wedding Ring Set in a Platinum Band with a polished finish.
With this ring you could choose whether to have the line of diamonds running in the centre or to the side or in a completely alternative way.
Obviously, you can also have it in any metal you'd like, be it Gold or Platinum, with a different finish.
formjewellery.com /portfolio/example6   (102 words)

  
 Backstreet Boys Unlimited - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Never Gone, the 4th studio release from Backstreet Boys, had been certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A. The album was released June 14, 2005 and debuted on Billboard album chart at #3 in the U.S. Additionally, "Incomplete," the first single off of Never Gone has been certified a Digital Platinum Single by the R.I.A.A. More...
The Backstreet Boys have officially announced that "Incomplete" is the new BSB single.
We know that many of you are looking forward to the release of the first Backstreet single off of their new album.
www.bsbunlimited.4t.com /news.html   (1350 words)

  
 Gavin DeGraw's Platinum Chariot
This announcement comes on the heels of his single "I Don't Want To Be" reaching the #1 spot on the Top 40 Radio Chart last week, along with DeGraw announcing new dates on his sold out headlining tour, with many dates selling out in less than 48 hours.
The single impacted at Top 40 radio in August and has enjoyed an incredible run at AC and Top 40 formats.
A fan driven project, Chariot "Stripped" offered Gavin the opportunity to re-record his album with the raw passion he had when he first penned these songs, as well as to showcase the growth and energy of these tracks garnered from performing them live over the last two years.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-18-2005/0002859788&EDATE=   (543 words)

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