Osmium Element in Periodic Table | Atomic Number Atomic Mass

Osmium Element:

The chemical element Osmium is classed as hard, brittle, bluish-white transition metal. It is one of the members in Platinum group metals along with platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium. Its atomic number is 76 and represented by the symbol Os. In the periodic table it is a d-block metal and it is belongs to the 8^th group and 6^th period. The element occurs combined in nature and also in the mineral osmiridium and iridosmium. Osmium contains seven naturally occurring isotopes, among six are stable, ¹⁸⁴Os, ¹⁸⁷Os, ¹⁸⁸Os, ¹⁸⁹Os, ¹⁹⁰Os and ¹⁹²Os.

Uses Of Osmium Element:

• Because of its density, osmium is often used alloyed with other metals in the platinum group to produce very hard alloys for fountain pen tips, instrument pivots, needles and electrical contacts.
• It is also used as catalyst in the chemical industry.

Osmium Element Information:

Discovery year:1803

Discovered by:Smithson Tennant 

Atomic number: 76

Relative atomic mass: 190.23  

Electron configuration: [Xe] 4f¹⁴ 5d⁶ 6s²

Block: d-block

Other elements in the same block:

Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, Yttrium, Zirconium, Niobium, Molybdenum, Technetium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium, Silver, Cadmium, Lanthanum,  Hafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten, Rhenium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, Mercury, Actinium, Rutherfordium, Dubnium, Seaborgium, Bohrium, Hassium, Meitnerium, Darmstadtium, Roentgenium and  Copernicium are the elements in the same block.

Period: period 6 

Other elements in the same period:

Caesium, Barium, Lanthanum,  Cerium, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Promethium, Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium, Terbium, Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium, Ytterbium, Lutetium, Hafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten, Rhenium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, Mercury, Thallium, Lead, Bismuth, Polonium, Astatine and Radon

Group: group 8

Other elements in the same group:

Iron, Ruthenium and Hassium are the elements in the same group

Other elements in the same orbital:

Hafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten, Rhenium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold and  Mercury are the elements in the same orbital.

Allotropes: none

Key isotopes: ¹⁹²Os

Melting point: 3033°C, 5491°F, 3306 K 

Boiling point: 5008°C, 9046°F, 5281 K

Element category:  transition metal

Density (g cm⁻³): 22.5872 

CAS number: 7440-04-2 

Color: silvery, blue cast

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