platinum
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 白金，铂，银灰色
构词拆分
+
-um后缀
Denotes singular grammatical number. · (chemistry) Forms the ends of the names of certain elements (such as molybdenum and platinum).
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 源自 ←西班牙语 platina “little silver”
词源说明
From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Gran Colombia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans. Doublet of platina.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (chemistry) The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
- A whitish grey colour, like that of the metal.
- (music, countable) A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million.
- (medicine, countable, sometimes, elliptically) A platinum-based drug: a platin