- Platinum requires special skills and tools to work with.
The image above shows a platinum wedding band just after
pre-polishing work was done on a lathe. The ring is already
so polished it shows a reflection of the photographer taking
the picture, even though it is spinning around at thousands
of rpm.
- Platinum has an extremely high melting temperature. In
its purest form it melts at 3214 degrees F, almost twice
the temperature needed to melt 14 ct gold.
- All the platinum ever mined would produce a cube 17 feet
on each side, less than 5000 cubic feet.
- It takes up to 10 tons of ore to produce one ounce of
platinum, more than twice as much ore that is typically
needed for an ounce of gold.
- Platinum is not susceptible to problems like stress corrosion
or stress cracking as can be the case with white gold. (This
problem mainly applies to prong settings etc. Don't worry,
your white gold wedding band will not suffer this problem).
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