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- n a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
- If you want to make a statement with a really, really expensive metal, you could go with osmium.
- PTI traced one secret multimillion-dollar sale of osmium 187, a by-product of nuclear reactors that is not weapons related but is an extremely expensive metal with applications in .
- The Berkeley team got around that problem by "grabbing" the whirling buckyballs with atomic "handles" containing the element osmium.