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Os
190.233Osmium
Appearancesilvery, blue cast
Categorytransition metal
Discovered bySmithson Tennant
Named byN/A
What element is Os on the periodic table?Os is the element Osmium on the periodic table.
What is the symbol for Osmium on the periodic table?The symbol for Osmium on the periodic table is Os.
What does Osmium look like?To the human eye, Osmium is silvery, blue cast.
About OsmiumOsmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Os and atomic number 76. It is a hard, brittle, bluish-white transition metal in the platinum group. It was discovered in 1803 by Smithson Tennant, who named it for the characteristic smell of its volatile oxide. Osmium has the highest density of any stable element and one of the lowest abundances in the Earth's crust, where it is mainly found alongside other platinum group metals and in ores of copper and nickel.Source: Wikipedia