Precious metals in automotive Technology: An unsolvable depletion problem?

Minerals

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 388-398

  Bardi, Ugo ^a   Caporali, Stefano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Chimica Università di Firenze ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Automotive; Catalytic converter; Platinum; Platinum group metals (PGM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937574452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2075163X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/min4020388     Document Type: Article

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