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n. - A hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals.

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  • I will go and personally sign out the osmium from the strategic metal and you can use it for your theses experiments.
  • The process removes sulfur present in the ore as sulfur dioxide and, at the same time, releases osmium, which is abundant in the ore.
  • Probably the core was made of stuff like osmium and uranium.
  • But the osmium and uranium alloyed with it are something else.
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