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Crossword-Solution: OSMIUM 6 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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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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Densest naturally occurring element 1 answer
Shiny silver metal, the densest of all the elements 1 answer
heaviest known metallic element 1 answer
Silvery white metal, Os 1 answer
Neighbor of iridium on the periodic table 1 answer
Heavy metallic element 1 answer
Heavy element used in alloys 1 answer
Heaviest metal 1 answer
Heaviest known metal, Os 1 answer
Element, Os 1 answer
Element that is twice as dense as lead 1 answer
Element primarily identified in outstanding parent 1 answer
Element in light filaments 1 answer
Element No. 76 1 answer
Element #76 1 answer
Densest stable element 1 answer
Densest natural element 1 answer
Densest metal 1 answer
Relative of platinum 2 answers
A HARD FERROMAGNETIC SILVER-WHITE BIVALENT OR TRIVALENT METALLIC ELEMENT 10 answers
A HEAVY BRITTLE DIAMAGNETIC TRIVALENT METALLIC ELEMENT 10 answers
A BLUISH-WHITE LUSTROUS METALLIC ELEMENT 10 answers
A SOFT SILVER-WHITE DUCTILE METALLIC ELEMENT 10 answers
COVERED WITH DENSE COTTONY HAIRS OR HAIRLIKE FILAMENTS 10 answers
A RARE SILVERY METALLIC ELEMENT 11 answers
A HARD BRITTLE BLUE-GREY OR BLUE-BLACK METALLIC ELEMENT THAT IS ONE OF THE PLATINUM METALS 11 answers
A SOFT SILVER-WHITE OR YELLOWISH METALLIC ELEMENT OF THE ALKALI METAL GROUP 11 answers
Heavy metal 11 answers
A HEAVY BRITTLE METALLIC ELEMENT OF THE PLATINUM GROUP 11 answers
A HEAVY PRECIOUS METALLIC ELEMENT 11 answers
A WHITE TRIVALENT METALLIC ELEMENT 11 answers
A WHITE METALLIC ELEMENT THAT BURNS WITH A BRILLIANT LIGHT 11 answers
chemical element 34 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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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.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
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 Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2005
The metal osmium, if exposed to the flame of oxidation, fuses and is finally dissipated as osmic acid.
A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Anonymous 2005
Osmium oxide (OsO^{2}) is converted in the oxidation flame to osmic acid, which is volatilized with a peculiar smell, leaving a sublimate.
A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Anonymous 2005
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.
A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Anonymous 2005

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.
Oliver Sacks Uncle Tungsten
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 22 times in crossword archives (1984–2022).