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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. ... Osmium: 22.61: 0.002 ...
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.
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.
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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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