The specific heat of 99.999 +% pure platinum was measured in the 0.4-30-K temperature range. Smoothed results are within 1.4% of the selected values of Furukawa, Reilly, and Gallagher. The electronic specific-heat coefficient is 1.551 ±{} 0.002 mcal/K² g-at. (6.492 ±{} 0.008 mJ/K² g-at.) and the low-temperature limiting Debye temperature is 238.7 ±{} 0.7 K. The Debye temperature initially decreases with increasing temperature. A small term proportional to T^-2 may be related to the 0.5-ppm Fe impurity. The possibility of iron impurity affecting platinum alloy results is pointed out.
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