Platinum, 10% on activated carbon powder, standard, unreduced, nominally 50% water wet

Platinum is used in catalytic converters, laboratory equipment, electrical application and electrodes, platinum resistance thermometers, dentistry equipment, and jeweler. It also used in glass fiber applications, chemical processing, off-road vehicles and fuel cells. As catalyst for curing of plastics, as catalyst for dehydrogenation, isomerization, and oxidation in the production of sulfuric, nitric, and organic acids and amines, for surgical instruments and implants. Platinum nanoparticles are used in scanning probes (microscopy) and catalysts. Catalyst used for the hydrogenation of alkenes, alkynes, nitro groups, ketones, aromatics, used for hydrogenolysis of cyclopropanes, catalyzes oxidation of alcohols. Schiff's base and nitrohydrogenation, hydrosilation.

This Thermo Scientific Chemicals brand product was originally part of the Alfa Aesar product portfolio. Some documentation and label information may refer to the legacy brand. The original Alfa Aesar product / item code or SKU reference has not changed as a part of the brand transition to Thermo Scientific Chemicals.