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To: Dr. Voodoo who wrote (156434)	4/13/2020 6:00:18 AM
From: sense	Respond to of 219671

There has been zippo in terms of research,,, and Pt might be exchangeable for Pd.. LOL!!! The U.S. did all of this back in the 1970's... Back then, they used platinum... and as they ramped up production the price of platinum skyrocketed... so people started working on ways to use less platinum... and found ways to use the somewhat less effective but vastly cheaper and far more available palladium instead... The first versions... used a LOT of platinum... but then the coatings applied on balls of other things got thinner pretty quickly... and substitutions followed that... Pt is probably still the better catalyst... but likely depends on fuel formulation, running temp, etc. Would have to crack open a handbook to look at that... You can pretty easily track all of this using market data... because the value of the metal in recycling means those guys doing that know exactly what the catalytic converters in older makes and models versus newer cars are worth... here's a page with a WAG And, back then, this happened, too. Leave your car unattended in parking too long... lose your converter.