osmiridium

At least he can take thousands of dollars worth of osmiridium.

Several mineral deposits are associated such as osmiridium, and chromium.

"That osmiridium you sprayed on the pipes did the trick.

Osmiridium is very rare, but it can be found in mines of other platinum group metals.

The station was the starting point for the pack horse journey to the Adamsfield osmiridium mine.

The osmiridium alloy got the vote as most useful discovery-in financing other expeditions.

The densest mineral, osmiridium has been concentrated and mined at Adamsfield.

Osmiridium has been defined as containing a higher proportion of iridium, while iridosmine contains more osmium.

It can be isolated by adding a piece to aqua regia, which has the ability to dissolve gold and platinum but not osmiridium.

Adamsfield is a locality in Tasmania Australia where osmiridium was discovered in 1925.

It was once one of the world's major producers of this rare metal, and the osmiridium was mostly recovered found in shallow alluvial workings.

It is constructed of gleaming silver and quartz; some tubes, handling particularly violent acids or bases, he has made of the osmiridium alloy.

Osmiridium, also known as iridosmium or iridosmine, is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium, with traces of other platinum group metals.

After figuring out the alloy osmiridium, Tom had distilled it into the jetmarine by a superhigh vacuum so that every exposed surface of the machinery was protected.

Naturally occurring iridium alloys include osmiridium and iridiosmium, both of which are mixtures of iridium and osmium.

Iron is valueless, silver valuable because of it's usefulness, availability and workability, osmiridium only because of it's resistance to corrosion, lead more valuable than gold!

In 1930 Esterbrook introduced a fountain pen in Britain which had a nib made of osmiridium, which eventually replaced large-scale production of steel-tipped pens.

Rice agreed to make batteries, suggesting that we use silver battery cases plated with osmiridium alloy, as they would be stronger, and less subject to breaking than glass or quartz.

Before the establishment of the towns of Fitzgerald and Maydena it was the resupply base for Adamsfield for osmiridium miners travelling McCullum's Track.

Iridium is found in nature as an uncombined element or in natural alloys; especially the iridium-osmium alloys, osmiridium (osmium rich), and iridiosmium (iridium rich).

The 3' 6" gauge railway line in Maydena was once used for hauling timber and osmiridium ore, as well as a way point for the Dam builders up at Strathgordon.

As well as gold, the mine also extracted osmiridium, with reports stating that several hundred grams were extracted in 1977, a very rare metal, normally only found in conjunction with other platinum group metals.

From the 1880s onwards, osmiridium was extensively mined in many creeks and rivers in the catchments of the Savage, Haezlewood and Wilson rivers, and particularly the Bald Hill area.

Osmium alloys such as osmiridium are very hard and, along with other platinum group metals, are used in the tips of fountain pens, instrument pivots, and electrical contacts, as they can resist wear from frequent operation.

Identifying a clastic rock as an impact breccia requires recognising shatter cones, tektites, spherulites, and the morphology of an impact crater, as well as potentially recognizing particular chemical and trace element signatures, especially osmiridium.