Crossword-Solution: OSMIUM
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| Osmium | n. | A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477. |
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Sentences with OSMIUM (5)
Osmium from a volatile compound of same thus deposited makes a filament as good as carbon when in vacuo." In 1888, long before there arose the actual necessity of duplicating phonograph records so as to produce replicas in great numbers, Edison described in one of his caveats a method and process much similar to the one which was put into practice by him in later years.
And what are now the great problems of chemistry? The difference of the metals themselves, their origin, the causes of their locations, of their co-existence in the same ore--as, for instance, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and iron with platinum.
The metal osmium, if exposed to the flame of oxidation, fuses and is finally dissipated as osmic acid.
Osmium oxide (OsO^{2}) is converted in the oxidation flame to osmic acid, which is volatilized with a peculiar smell, leaving a sublimate.
This metal, strongly ignited in a glass tube with nitrate of potash, is converted to the oxide of osmium, which gives an odor not unlike the chloride of sulphur.
Quotes with OSMIUM (1)
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals — my old and valued friends — Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1984–2022).