Karl Heinrich Joseph Reichsgraf von Sickingen was a German academic who is known for his work on

platinum Platinum is a chemical element with the symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name originates from Spanish , a diminutive of "silver". Platinu ...

Biography

von Sickingen was born in 1737. He died on July 13, 1791 in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

. The researches of von Sickingen were scientific in nature. He made significant and accurate remarks on platinum, even though it was already acknowledged as a novel material in the 16th century, which is characterised by its large weight, meltability, and unassailability. He played an instrumental role in the discovery on how to convert the metal, which had previously only existed in infusible grains, into cohesive sheet metal.

Works

* ''Versuche über die Platina. Mit zweien kupfer tafeln''

References

1737 births 1791 deaths German metallurgists People from Vienna {{Improve categories, date=October 2022