osmium
A chemical element (symbol Os) with atomic number 76: a hard, brittle, heavy, bluish-white transition metal found as a trace element in alloys, mostly in platinum ores.
Example
“Their latest catalyst includes some osmium.”
Other meanings
A single atom of this element.
“This reaction substitutes a ruthenium for an osmium.”
A kind of
- metallic element
Related words
- diosmium
- nonosmium
- organoosmium
- osmian
- osmide
- radioosmium
- eka-osmium
- iridiosmium
- iridosmine
- osmate
- osmiate
- osmic
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ὀσμή" (smell).
Where this comes from
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