Definitions for osmium

osmium os·mi·um

Spelling: [oz-mee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈɒz mi əm/

Osmium is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in osmium (immosu).

Definitions for osmium

noun

  1. a hard, heavy, metallic element having the greatest density of the known elements and forming octavalent compounds, as OsO 4 and OsF 8 : used chiefly as a catalyst, in alloys, and in the manufacture of electric-light filaments. Symbol: Os; atomic weight: 190.2; atomic number: 76; specific gravity: 22.57.

Origin of osmium

1795-1805; New Latin Greek osm(ḗ) smell + -ium -ium; named from the penetrating odor of one of its oxides

Examples for osmium

An alloy of iridium and osmium (artificial or native) has been employed for tipping the nibs of gold pens (everlasting pens).

The osmium filament appeared in 1905 and its invention is due to Welsbach, who had produced the marvelous gas-mantle.

The ore of osmium and iridium can be decomposed, and the former recognized by its fetid odor.

But the osmium and uranium alloyed with it are something else.

There are four chlorides of osmium, the best known of which are the dichloride and the tetrachloride.

Owing to its extreme brittleness, osmium was finely divided and made into a paste of organic material.

In South America this metal is found native, associated with platinum and osmium.

The telephone relay consists of a microphone C, Fig. 25, formed of the two pieces of osmium iridium alloy.

osmium 187 was stable, but it wasn't a normally used step toward Mercury 203.

Iridium occurs in nature associated with osmium, gold, and platinum, in the mines of Russia.

Word Value for osmium
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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