Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0032207
MSH: Platinum. A heavy, soft, whitish metal, resembling tin, atomic number 78, atomic weight 195.09, symbol Pt. (From Dorland, 28th ed) It is used in manufacturing equipment for laboratory and industrial use. It occurs as a black powder (platinum black) and as a spongy substance (spongy platinum) and may have been known in Pliny's time as "alutiae".,CSP: heavy whitish metal, symbol Pt, atomic number 78; metallic platinum is insoluble except in nitrohydrochloric acid and fusible only at very high temperatures, and therefore used in the manufacture of equipment for laboratory and industrial use; platinum black and spongy platinum act as powerful oxidizing and catalytic agents.,NCI: A metal that is an important component of some anticancer drugs, such as cisplatin and carboplatin.,NCI: An element with atomic symbol Pt, atomic number 78, and atomic weight 195.09.