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 Translation for 'osmium' from English to Russian
NOUN   osmium | -
SYNO atomic number 76 | Os | osmium
хим.
осмий {м} <Os>
osmium <Os>
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Translation for 'osmium' from English to Russian

osmium <Os>
осмий {м} <Os>хим.
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Usage Examples English
  • Osmium(IV) chloride or osmium tetrachloride is the inorganic compound composed of osmium and chlorine with the empirical formula OsCl4.
  • Rhenium and osmium are siderophile elements which are present at very low abundances in the crust.
  • Norwegian shale and Japanese chert from the Ladinian-Carnian boundary show a marked change in the ratio of seawater osmium isotopes.
  • Osmium hexafluoride, also osmium(VI) fluoride, (OsF6) is a compound of osmium and fluorine, and one of the seventeen known binary hexafluorides.
  • Ruthenium tetroxide is equally volatile and even more aggressive than osmium tetraoxide and able to stain even materials that resist the osmium stain, e.g. polyethylene.

  • Another explanation for the divergence attributes the weight change to osmium in the platinum iridium alloy which reacts with oxygen to form osmium tetroxide that over multiple years evaporates .
  • Ruthenium and osmium have very similar chemistry due to the lanthanide contraction but iron shows some differences from them; for example, although ruthenium and osmium form stable tetroxides in which the metal is in the +8 oxidation state, iron does not.
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