PtRh10 deformed condition

The material PtRh10 (in the literature also Pt10Rh, Pt90Rh10 or PtRh90/10) is used for highly stressed laboratory equipment, such as crucibles for melt digestion of minerals and ferroalloys as well as for crucibles, casts and stirrers in viscometry also in the fine grain stabilized state. Furthermore, the material is used for thermocouples (pairing PtRh10/Pt up to 1500°C), electrodes, glass fiber nozzles and lining materials for glass melting tanks as well as for catalyst grids. The mechanical, thermal and corrosive resistance increases with increasing rhodium content. An advantage of the platinum-rhodium alloy is that even in an oxidizing atmosphere only a minimum of weight loss occurs. The material is ductile, corrosion-resistant, oxidation-resistant and high temperature resistant. It is machinable, roll-cladable and conditionally deductible from the gas phase.