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Osmium

Page history last edited by osmiun 10 years, 5 months ago

 Periodic Network

 

 

 

 Quote:

No, I do not cause osmosis.  

 

Status update:

3/5/1803: Oh no! As I have been exposed to oxygen as I am being discovered, I am beginning to oxidize slowly into osmium tetroxide, which is extremely toxic.

5/13/1905: I am being used as a catalyst in the Haber process, a process used to turn oxygen and hydrogen into ammonia. Yay! :D

9/7/2000: As I am the radioactive isotope Osmium-186, I am slowly decaying(however, I have a very long half-life, so I will take millions of years to decay). OMG!

10/25/2013: Wow! I was just used with 6 atoms of flourine to form osmiun hexaflouride. Because no matter can be created or destoryed, a molecule of osmiun hexaflouride weighs the same as 6 atoms of flourine and one atom of me.  Wow c: 

10/26/2013: I am so sad. Even though I am a transition metal who can bond with some elements, noone that I can bond with is willing to be in a relationship with me. I guess flourine, boron, and oxygen have cooler friends. The only people who want to bond with me are people I can't bond with - other heavy metals.  ;_;


Overview:

Hi! I am osmium, the best, and densest of all the elements. As the hardest pure metal element, I am also very rare, the least often occurring stable element in Earth's crust, and expensive. Also, I have a very high melting point and boiling point. In life, I can be found in fountain pen nibs and phonograph needles. Additionally, finely powdered and inside air, I am extremely volatile and dangerous, able to kill or blind a very low concentrations. Finally, I'm one of the only metals with a slight bluish tint (my favorite color =D).

Information: 

 

Relationship Status: 

I can make covalent bonds if anyone wants to bond with me :D

Primary Relationship: 

Looking...with little success, everyone I can react with is too popular to bond with me! D: 

network: 

Metal (Transition)

valence electrons:

Two

reactivity:

I form salts and oxides with oxygen. I also react with flourine at high temperatures to form osmium hexaflouride

I even react with boron (who isn't boring)

state of matter:  Solid 
Location on Periodic Table: Group 8, Period 6 

Birthday: 

1803 

Hometown: 

London (discovered by Smithson Tennant, and William Hyde Wollaston) 

Movies: 

The Bluest Metal, Smells Like Ozone 

Activities & Interests:

I am very interested in oxygen-whenever I meet oxygen, I react into osmium tetroxide, a highly volatile substance that quickly sublimates.

I am also interested in fluourine, which I bond with to form Osmium Trifloride

Finally, many of my activities are oxidations - I have many oxidation states going from -2 to +8.

Some of my favorite activites are bonding with other atoms. Some of my reactions create toxic compounts though :/ For example, I can react with 2 atoms of Hydrogen, 10 of Carbon, and 10 of Oxygen to form Decacarbonyldihydridotriosmium, a very complicated molecule :D


Places:

9/16/1950 Checking in to the inside of an ore containing other metals, including silver, palladium, and rhodium, where I am often found in nature.

3/4/1997 Wow! I am in a very rare but naturally occurring alloy known as osmiridium, which can be found in impact craters.

5/6/2005 How boring! I am now checking in to a deposit of igneous rock, the most common place where I occur.

9/15/2009 Yay! I am checking in to a molecule of osmium hexaflouride, made up of one atom of me and six of flourine. Unfourtunately, other than looking yellow, I have little practical use ):

 


Photos:     

 

 

 Atom and Bonding Diagrams

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Bohr

P+76

N=114

E=76

 

Electron Dot Diagram

I have two valence electrons.

:D

This is a diagram of the 

configuration of my

electron energy levels -

2,8,18,32,14,2

 

 

 

 

 Me and my friends - Around the World

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

  

  

I have 76 protons and 

an atomic weight of 190.23,

also you can notice my 

slight bluish tint

:D

This is an image of

osmium-tetroxide, 

 which is created when I meet

oxygen, very toxic to humans 

:O

I can be found in crystals,

although those crystals

are often very small 

^^

I am found impurely

with ores of Silver  and 

 palladium, some of

my best friends 

I am found in

the tips of pens.

OMG what a

pretty pen!

 

 


Groups:

I am in the groups of transition metals, group 8 elements, period 6 elements, solids, liquids (at over 3033 degrees celsius), and gases (at 5012 degrees celsius). I am also in the so-called "platinum group", also the best group because we are all shiny metals :D

 

 

Resources:

Gray, Theodore W.., and Nick Mann. The Elements. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal,2009. Print.

 

"Osmium." WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <http://www.webelements.com/osmium/chemistry.html>.

 

"Osmium." WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <http://www.webelements.com/osmium/>.

 

"The Element Osmium." It's Elemental -. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2013.

<http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele076.html>.

 

"Osmium - Os." Osmium (Os). N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. <http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/os.htm>.

 

 


Friends:    

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Scandium  

Titanium

Vanadium

Chromium

Manganese  
Iron
Cobalt
Nickel
Copper
Zinc  
Yttrium   Zirconium   Niobium   Molybdenum   Technetium  
Ruthenium   Palladium   Silver   Cadmium   Lanthanum  
Hafnium   Tantalum   Tungsten   Rhenium   Iridium  
Platinum   Gold   Mercury   Actinium    
         
         
         

 

 

 

 

Periodic Network

 

 

 

 

Comments (8)

mittenzweis@fultonschools.org said

at 2:42 pm on Oct 25, 2013

What is the next closest stable element in density to me?

osmiun said

at 2:09 pm on Oct 29, 2013

Hi! Although I am the densest stable element, Iridium is very close in density to me. I am 22.59 grams per cm^3 while Iridium is 22.56 grams per cm^3. Iridium is also very close to me on the periodic table, having an atomic number of just 1 more than me. Iridium, another silvery transition metal, is a great element too :D

mittenzweis@fultonschools.org said

at 2:54 pm on Oct 25, 2013

How is osmium obtained commercially?

osmiun said

at 2:17 pm on Oct 29, 2013

Commercially, I am often found as a byproduct in my metal friends in nickel and copper. Also, I can be found naturally in other platinum group metals such as hafnium. I have many metal, and especially platinum group, friends :)

iridium said

at 10:17 am on Oct 29, 2013

Hey osmium! Haven't seen you since 1803! How have you been?? Did you know we make compass bearings and pen tips? Tenant & Wollaston didn't tell us that! I heard everyone ships us... (:O Will you give me the honor of being in a relationship with me? On the first date, we could go hiking if you'd like. BTW I never get lost ^^

osmiun said

at 2:15 pm on Oct 29, 2013

Hi Iridium! I'm really sorry, but I can't be in a relationship with you because we don't form any chemical bonds with you (though sometimes in nature we can be found as an alloy). Also, I think you're kind of ugly ):

titanium said

at 3:05 pm on Oct 29, 2013

would you like to make a pen with me? you are very shiny!

osmiun said

at 9:05 am on Oct 30, 2013

I'm sorry. I think you are very shiny too, but I can not go out with you because we can only form a alloy, which isn't a chemical bond. D:

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