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The blue plaque for Smithson Tennant in Finkle Street, Selby, North Yorkshire. Smithson Tennant FRS (30 November 1761 [1] – 22 February 1815 [2]) was an English chemist.He is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1803.
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; Osmium ... History; Discovery and first isolation: Smithson Tennant (1803) Isotopes of osmium. Main isotopes [9] Decay; abundance half-life (t 1/2 ...
Tennant had been working on samples of South American platinum in parallel with Wollaston and discovered two new elements, which he named osmium and iridium, and published the iridium results in 1804. [115] Collet-Descotils also found iridium the same year, but not osmium. [85] 45 Rhodium: 1804 H. Wollaston: 1804 H. Wollaston
Osmiridium is a naturally occurring alloy of iridium and osmium found in platinum-bearing river sands in the Ural Mountains and in North and South America. Trace amounts of osmium also exist in nickel-bearing ores found in the Sudbury, Ontario, region along with other platinum group metals. Even though the quantity of platinum metals found in ...
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.
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Osmium(VIII) oxide is also used as a stain for lipids in optical microscopy. [26] OsO 4 also stains the human cornea (see safety considerations). A sample of cells fixed/stained with osmium tetroxide (black) embedded in epoxy resin (amber). The cells are black as a result of the effects of osmium tetroxide.