noble metal

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"It thus offers a powerful and sustainable alternative to the noble metal complexes that have long dominated light-driven chemistry."

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

Such strong cultural affinity for physical gold, particularly jewellery, means the appetite for the noble metal is unlikely to be dented in the long term, despite the short-term moderation, say experts.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

Mixing the magnetic metal nickel with the noble metal gold radically changes the electronic properties.

From Science Daily • Sep. 18, 2023

The process won't inspire a new gold rush, because scaling it up would be both prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, but it does have implications for the creation, detection and processing of this noble metal.

From Nature • Mar. 13, 2013

By your good leave, my most profound       and bold sir, Dan's noble metal, Sherry base; So Dan's the better, though the less, An ounce of gold’s worth ten of brass,       dull pedant!

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst