{"id":2787,"date":"2026-02-14T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2026-02-14T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:12:09","slug":"osmium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/osmium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Osmium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osmium is an extremely dense, hard transition metal in the platinum group with limited but specialized industrial uses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Osmium<\/strong> | It has high density, hardness and forms volatile and toxic osmium tetroxide under oxidizing conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Osmium<\/strong> | Used in fountain pen nibs, electrical contacts, instrument pivots and specialized alloys; handled carefully due to toxic oxide formation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Osmium<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Os 184 to Os 192; osmium tetroxide is highly toxic and requires strict containment and safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dense, hard platinum group metal used in alloys and specialized applications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}