Platinum is a light silvery metal that is was origionionally used for jewelery.
It is still used for many things today such as wire parts and pace makers. The metal was used by pre-Columbian Indians but was not discovered by the outside world until 1735 when a man named Ylloa and agoin in 1741 by a man named Wood. In 1822 plenty of platinum was discovered in the Ural Mountaions in Russia.