There had been a lot of work done recently (at the time the story was originally written) separating noble metals in the platinum group. Chemists just kept _finding_ new stuff, the closer they looked at platinum, iridium, etc. So, yeah, a logical place to find something new.
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Date: 2007-11-27 04:29 pm (UTC)There had been a lot of work done recently (at the time the story was originally written) separating noble metals in the platinum group. Chemists just kept _finding_ new stuff, the closer they looked at platinum, iridium, etc. So, yeah, a logical place to find something new.