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...
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Osmium tetroxide (also osmium(VIII) oxide) is the chemical compound with the formula OsO4. The compound is noteworthy for its many uses, despite its toxicity...
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Osmium (76Os) has seven naturally occurring isotopes, five of which are stable: 187Os, 188Os, 189Os, 190Os, and (most abundant) 192Os. The other natural...
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Osmium diphosphide is a binary inorganic compound of osmium metal and phosphorus with the chemical formula OsP2. Osmium diphosphide can be obtained by...
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Osmium chloride may refer to: Osmium(III) chloride, OsCl3 Osmium(IV) chloride (osmium tetrachloride), OsCl4 Osmium(V) chloride (osmium pentachloride),...
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Osmium hexafluoride, also osmium(VI) fluoride, (OsF6) is a compound of osmium and fluorine, and one of the seventeen known binary hexafluorides. Osmium...
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Osmium fluoride may refer to: Osmium(IV) fluoride (osmium tetrafluoride), OsF4 Osmium(V) fluoride (osmium pentafluoride), OsF5 Osmium(VI) fluoride (osmium...
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Look up Osmium or osmium in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Osmium is a chemical element with symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium may also refer to:...
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Osmium is the debut album of American funk band Parliament, led by George Clinton. The album has a psychedelic soul sound with a spirit of experimentation...
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Osmium bromide may refer to: Osmium(IV) bromide (osmium tetrabromide), OsBr4 Osmium(III) bromide (osmium tribromide), OsBr3 This set index article lists...
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Hassium (redirect from Eka-osmium)
experiments have confirmed that hassium behaves as the heavier homologue to osmium, reacting readily with oxygen to form a volatile tetroxide. The chemical...
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group, it is considered the second-densest naturally occurring metal (after osmium) with a density of 22.56 g/cm3 (0.815 lb/cu in) as defined by experimental...
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Osmium tetrasulfide is an inorganic compound, a salt of osmium metal and hydrogen sulfide acid with the chemical formula OsS4. Osmium tetrasulfide can...
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Osmium heptafluoride is a possible inorganic chemical compound of osmium metal and fluorine with the chemical formula OsF 7. It was first reported in 1966...
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Osmium(II) chloride or osmium dichloride is an inorganic compound composed of osmium metal and chlorine with the chemical formula OsCl 2. Osmium(II) chloride...
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Osmium oxide may refer to: Osmium dioxide, OsO2 Osmium tetroxide, OsO4 This set index article lists chemical compounds articles associated with the same...
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Osmium(III) chloride is an inorganic chemical compound of osmium metal and chlorine with the chemical formula OsCl3. Osmium(III) chloride can be made...
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Osmium dioxide is an inorganic compound with the formula OsO2. It exists as brown to black crystalline powder, but single crystals are golden and exhibit...
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Osmium borides are compounds of osmium and boron. Their most remarkable property is potentially high hardness. It is thought that a combination of high...
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Osmium(IV) fluoride is an inorganic chemical compound of osmium metal and fluorine with the chemical formula OsF4. Passing fluorine over heated osmium...
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Osmium compounds are compounds containing the element osmium (Os). Osmium forms compounds with oxidation states ranging from −2 to +8. The most common...
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Osmium octafluoride is an inorganic chemical compound of osmium metal and fluorine with the chemical formula OsF8. Some sources consider it to be a still...
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Osmium iodide refers to compounds of osmium with the formula OsIn. Several have been mentioned in the literature, but only the triiodide has been verified...
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Osmium pentacarbonyl is the organoosmium compound with the formula Os(CO)5. It is the simplest isolatable carbonyl complex of osmium. Osmium pentacarbonyl...
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solution. Osmium tetraoxide is used in optical microscopy to stain lipids. It dissolves in fats, and is reduced by organic materials to elemental osmium, an...
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Osmium(III) tribromide is a binary inorganic compound with the chemical formula OsBr 3. Decomposition of osmium tetrabromide under vacuum heating: 2OsBr4...
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elements in the periodic table. It consists of iron (Fe), ruthenium (Ru), osmium (Os) and hassium (Hs). "Group 8" is the modern standard designation for...
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Osmium pentafluoride is an inorganic compound with the formula OsF5. It is a blue-green solid. Like the pentafluorides of Ru, Rh, and Ir, OsF5 exists as...
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platinum, and the other platinum group metals (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium) are most often so classified. Silver, copper, and mercury are...
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alkene by osmium tetroxide, followed by a Malaprade reaction to cleave the diol using periodate. Periodate also serves to regenerate the osmium tetroxide...
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