AbstractPlatinum group elements are invaluable tracers for planetary accretion and differentiation and the formation of PGE sulfide deposits. Previous laboratory determinations of the sulfide liquid–basaltic melt partition coefficients of PGE ($${D}_{PGE}^{SL/SM}$$
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) yielded values of 102–109, and values of >105 have been accepted by the geochemical and cosmochemical society. Here we perform measurements of $${D}_{Pt,\,Pd}^{SL/SM}$$
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at 1 GPa and 1,400 °C, and find that $${D}_{Pt,\,Pd}^{SL/SM}$$
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increase respectively from 3,500 to 3.5 × 105 and 1,800 to 7 × 105, as the Pt and Pd concentration in the sulfide liquid increases from 60 to 21,000 ppm and 26 to 7,000 ppm, respectively, implying non-Henrian behavior of the Pt and Pd partitioning. The use of $${D}_{Pt,\,Pd}^{SL/SM}$$
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values of 2,000–6,000 well explains the Pt and Pd systematics of Earth’s mantle peridotites and mid-ocean ridge basalts. Our findings suggest that the behavior of PGE needs to be reevaluated when using them to trace planetary magmatic processes.