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This is a list of prices of chemical elements. Listed here are mainly average market prices for bulk trade of commodities. Data on elements' abundance in Earth's crust is added for comparison. As of 2020, the most expensive non-synthetic element by both mass and volume is rhodium.
Osmium (from Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ) 'smell') is a chemical element; it has symbol Os and atomic number 76. It is a hard, brittle, bluish-white transition metal in the platinum group that is found as a trace element in alloys, mostly in platinum ores. Osmium is the densest naturally occurring element.
Osmium (76 Os) has seven naturally occurring isotopes, five of which are stable: 187 Os, 188 Os, 189 Os, 190 Os, and (most abundant) 192 Os. The other natural isotopes, 184 Os, and 186 Os, have extremely long half-life (1.12×10 13 years and 2×10 15 years, respectively) and for practical purposes can be considered to be stable as well.
Rhenium–osmium dating is a form of radiometric dating based on the beta decay of the isotope 187 Re to 187 Os. This normally occurs with a half-life of 41.6 × 10 9 y, [ 1 ] but studies using fully ionised 187 Re atoms have found that this can decrease to only 33 y. [ 2 ]
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Osmium oxide may refer to: Osmium dioxide, OsO 2; Osmium tetroxide, OsO 4 This page was last edited on 4 March 2021, at 20:47 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Osmium diphosphide is a binary inorganic compound of osmium metal and phosphorus with the chemical formula OsP 2. Synthesis. Osmium diphosphide can be obtained by ...