Patina vs Platina - What's the difference?
patina | platina |
(originally) A paten, flat type of dish
The color or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
(figurative) A gloss or superficial layer.
* 2012 , Alison Winter, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
(chemistry, obsolete) platinum
As nouns the difference between patina and platina
is that patina is a paten, flat type of dish while platina is platinum.As an adjective patina
is of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.patina
English
(wikipedia patina)Noun
- It demonstrates how scientific authority could be constructed on the fly, as it were, by someone with no connections and no psychological credentials who offered a technique that had the patina of modern science