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Osmium is one of the densest elements in the world. It is a lustrous, bluish white, hard metal and can be brittle even at a high temperature. Within the platinum group, osmium has the highest ...
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, ...
AN important addition to our knowledge of the chemical nature of this interesting element is contributed by Prof. Moraht ... This chloride of osmium, os2c1.7hso, would appear to be a molecular ...
For example, the densest element on Earth, Osmium, contains 76 protons packed into each atomic nucleus. If the scientists' new calculations are correct, ...
"Osmium is the densest naturally occurring element. When experimentally measured using X-ray crystallography, it has a density of 22.59 g/cm^3." Perhaps you are confusing density and atomic weight?
In other words, it contains elements not on the periodic table at all. These elements would be stable around atomic number 164, which is far denser that Osmium, the densest known naturally ...
The densest element is osmium, and right behind it, there’s iridium. Both have almost double the density of lead and are only a smidge apart.
However, Rafelski and his team argue that outlier asteroids like 33 Polyhymnia could be home to theoretical elements around the atomic number 164—many times heavier than osmium.