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<p>[QUOTE="Bman33, post: 2747317, member: 77126"]Of the 218 tonnes of platinum sold in 2014, 98 tonnes were used for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_emissions_control" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_emissions_control" rel="nofollow">vehicle emissions control</a> devices (45%), 74.7 tonnes for jewelry (34%), 20.0 tonnes for chemical production and petroleum refining (9.2%), and 5.85 tonnes for electrical applications such as hard disk drives (2.7%). The remaining 28.9 tonnes went to various other minor applications, such as medicine and biomedicine, glassmaking equipment, investment, electrodes, anticancer drugs,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_sensor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_sensor" rel="nofollow">oxygen sensors</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_plug" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_plug" rel="nofollow">spark plugs</a> and turbine engines.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum#cite_note-usgs2014-yearbook-54" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum#cite_note-usgs2014-yearbook-54" rel="nofollow">[54]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bman33, post: 2747317, member: 77126"]Of the 218 tonnes of platinum sold in 2014, 98 tonnes were used for [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_emissions_control']vehicle emissions control[/URL] devices (45%), 74.7 tonnes for jewelry (34%), 20.0 tonnes for chemical production and petroleum refining (9.2%), and 5.85 tonnes for electrical applications such as hard disk drives (2.7%). The remaining 28.9 tonnes went to various other minor applications, such as medicine and biomedicine, glassmaking equipment, investment, electrodes, anticancer drugs,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_sensor']oxygen sensors[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_plug']spark plugs[/URL] and turbine engines.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum#cite_note-usgs2014-yearbook-54'][54][/URL][/QUOTE]
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