Osmium Metal 99.95% 100mg Exotic Bullion or Element Collection USA SHIPPING

Description: TNo doubt about it. Osmium is a rising star in the bullion world. Already a star among element collectors, this bluish precious metal is poised to become much more familiar in the years to come. Why, what’s so special about it? For one, it’s far rarer than gold or platinum. It, in fact, is a candidate for the rarest of all non-radioactive elements in the earth’s crust at a distribution of just one part per billion. Although a precious metal, it is not normally found where one digs up silver or gold. It is instead recovered from platinum ores as minute traces. Being so rare might explain why it has been ignored by industrial engineers but should have fueled the jewelry and bullion counterparts. And yet it didn’t because when turned into a powder - its default as refined - it is vulnerable to quite poisonous oxides. So just melt it into a lump and turn it into rings and pendants! Not so fast. Osmium is nearly unmeltable, requiring special lab furnaces that can do the job only on a small scale. As a final nail in the coffin, these solid pieces of osmium absolutely refuse to budge under a hammer or any other machining process shattering instead like a cheap piece of glass. With those headwinds it’s hardly surprising that practically no one has heard of osmium despite its tremendous potential. Fewer than 100lbs of this metal is estimated to come to market every year. Now you can be one of the very few people on earth to own a little of this precious metal!Listing is for one tenth of one gram of osmium metal crystals in a labeled acrylic box. Luciteria Science is a scientific collectibles company operating in Olympia, Washington. For our full product line please visit our website.

Price: 15 USD

Location: Olympia, Washington

End Time: 2024-12-30T21:03:38.000Z

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