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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Professor Hanington's Speaking of Science: Dense metals

He named one iridium after Iris, the GREEK winged goddess of the rainbow because many of the salts he obtained were strongly colored. The second he named osmium after GREEK word osme, meaning “a smell,” because of the ashy and smoky smell of the volatile osmium tetroxide. Discovery of both ...


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