Pure osmium tetroxide or its concentrated solutions must be opened only in a chemical hood that has been certified within the last 12 months. During use, the sash must be lowered to operating height.

Sources of osmium. Osmium is produced as a by-product of nickel refining. The element occurs in the mineral iridosule and in platinum-bearing river sands in the Urals, North America and South America.

This makes osmium both strange and valuable. In fact, it is so strange that it is the least abundant element in the earth's crust. For every 1 gram of osmium, there are 307,333,333 grams of oxygen, ...

Indeed previous to the year 1878 the order of precedence as regards atomic weight of the four metals of the platinum group—gold 196 2, iridium 196'7, platinum 196'7, and osmium 198'6—was ...

Zion Market Research. The demand analysis of Global Osmium Market size & share revenue was valued at around USD 642.93 million in 2022 and is estimated to grow about USD 856.58 million by 2030, at ...

Gregory Girolami recounts how element 76 beat a close competitor to the title of densest known metal and went on to participate in Nobel Prize-winning reactions.

The periodic table lists 118 different chemical elements. And yet, for thousands of years, humans have really, really liked one of them in particular: gold. A chemist explains.

Before last week, hardly anyone had heard of osmium, let alone its tetroxide. But on 5 April, the chemical achieved global notoriety as the latest weapon in the arsenal of terrorists. The world's ...