Description & History
os·mi·um (1804):
a hard brittle blue-gray or blue-black polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group with a high melting point that is the heaviest metal known and is used especially as a catalyst and in hard alloys
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Element
| Symbol | Os |
| Z | 76 |
| Atomic Weight | 190.199997 |
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| Density | 22.5 |
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Edge Energies
(keV)
| K | 73.8720016 |
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| L1 | 12.9639997 |
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| L2 | 12.3839998 |
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| L3 | 10.8710003 |
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| M | 3.04999995 |
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| K-alpha | 62.9910011 |
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| K-beta | 71.4039993 |
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| L-alpha | 8.90999985 |
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| L-beta | 10.3540001 |
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Edge jumps
| K | 5.06420803 |
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| L1 | 1.15976775 |
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| L2 | 1.40999997 |
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| L3 | 2.52900004 |
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Fluorescence
yield
| K | 0.961000025 |
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| L1 | 0.129999995 |
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| L2 | 3.04999995 |
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| L3 | 62.9910011 |
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