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If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?

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Offline Pseudoscience-is-malarkey (OP)

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If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?
« on: 15/12/2023 04:46:45 »
Just a question.
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Re: If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?
« Reply #1 on: 15/12/2023 09:08:04 »
This question has already been asked some time ago.
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Re: If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?
« Reply #2 on: 15/12/2023 10:03:25 »
I'd still sell it.
Well over a grand per gram.

You asked this before
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=85952.msg696146#msg696146
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Re: If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?
« Reply #3 on: 15/12/2023 10:49:53 »
Spank me now and we'll call it even.
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Re: If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?
« Reply #4 on: 15/12/2023 16:44:30 »
I'd send samples to some of our correspondents, labelled "at last, something denser than you".
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Re: If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?
« Reply #5 on: 15/12/2023 17:28:51 »
Not as dense as iridium, though.  I had no idea osmium was so expensive, I would have thought rhodium and rhenium would have been the most expensive. That sort of limits the use of osmium tetroxide in chemistry and as a biologic stain.
« Last Edit: 15/12/2023 17:47:41 by paul cotter »
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Re: If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?
« Reply #6 on: 17/12/2023 14:04:17 »
Quote from: alancalverd on 15/12/2023 16:44:30
I'd send samples to some of our correspondents, labelled "at last, something denser than you".
It must be heaven working for you. When you get your staff to fetch your coffee, do you have them retreat to their place slowly, never turning their back on you? Or slap them if they make eye contact with you or splash it in their face if it's too hot?
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Re: If you got your hands on a bunch of Osmium, what would you do with it?
« Reply #7 on: 18/12/2023 18:25:38 »
Quote from: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 15/12/2023 10:49:53
Spank me now and we'll call it even.

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