Andy Oppenheimer, a nuclear, biological and chemical weapons expert for Jane's Information Group, said
osmium tetroxide was an unusual choice as a chemical weapon but it could kill.
Andy Oppenheimer, a nuclear,biological and chemical weapons expert for Jane's InformationGroup, said
osmium tetroxide was an unusual choice of chemical but it could kill.
Suspects' conversations were eavesdropped on at the GCHQ electronic listening centre and police moved to disrupt the plot at an early stage before any
osmium tetroxide was obtained.
According to Webster's New World Dictionary of Science (1998, Helicon),
osmium's discoverer, Smithson Tennant, named the element "after the irritating smell of one of its oxides."--P.
A volatile form of
osmium is generated during platinum refinement and also during the normal operation of cars, and it gets dispersed globally through the atmosphere.
In a surprising overturn, the lustrous, blue-white element
osmium has beaten diamond in a test of compressibility.
Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): Researchers at University of Warwick say that a precious metal called
osmium, which has never been used in a clinical setting before, may lead to next generation of improved cancer treatments.
Certain metals, such as
osmium, would have been pulled into Earth's central core if they had been present before the planet got wet.
Suspecting that hassium has properties similar to
osmium and other so-called group 8 elements, chemists placed hassium on the periodic table directly below
osmium.
Smotkin then tested the most promising ones in fuel cells and found that a particular blend of platinum, ruthenium,
osmium, and iridium is much more active than the platinum-ruthenium alloy now considered the best catalyst available.
They reacted a 50-50 mixture of carbon-76 molecules with an
osmium compound and a plant alkaloid that preferentially grabs one version of the molecule (SN: 1/2/93, p.6).