Osmium, the rarest metal on Earth, is drawing increasing attention not only for its unique properties but also for its staggering value. Currently priced at $1,350 per gram, it is already 15 times ...

You've probably never even heard of osmium (no relation to Donny Osmond). That may be because 1) You are not a dork, and 2) It is the rarest metal in the world. It also has some interesting properties ...

A new osmium-based complex has been found to bind methane extremely effectively, with a half-life around 13 hours as opposed to the microseconds previously possible UNSW ...

Crystalline osmium – the scarcest and densest platinum-group metal (PGM) globally – attracts more long-term opportunities for investors than diamonds, says precious metals refiner Gauteng ...

The Osmium Metal Market Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis along with Major Segments and Forecast, 2020-2025. The Osmium Metal market report is a v. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Of course, if they were made of osmium, they’d be worth more than all of ABBA’s music royalties combined. “You have to mine 10,000 tons of platinum ore just to find a sugar cube of osmium ...

Osmium ( /ˈɒzmiəm/ oz-mee-əm) is a chemical element with the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is ...

Such a pretty blue-gray metal, the densest of the elements! Our expert bumped osmium because it's too rare -- comes in on meteorites, or some such.

THE chemical determination of the atomic weight of osmium made by Gilchrist1 in 1932 gave the value of 191.5. This result was accepted internationally until Nier2 calculated the value 190.2, now ...