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This product is produced by Special Metal Technologies (SMT) and Meta Metals of Austria.
Osmium, with the chemical symbol Os and atomic number 76, was discovered in 1803 by English chemists Smithson Tennant and William Hyde Wollaston. They isolated it from platinum ores and named it after the Greek word "osme," meaning "odor," due to the characteristic strong smell of its compounds.
On Earth, osmium is extremely rare, constituting less than 0.0001% of the Earth's crust. This scarcity, coupled with its deep blue color, gives it a unique quality. The main producing countries are South Africa, Russia, and Canada.
Why Crystalline Osmium is Expensive
* Extreme Rarity: Osmium is one of the rarest stable non-radioactive elements in the Earth's crust.
* Complex Crystallization: Raw osmium powder is toxic and volatile, requiring a complex, high-temperature chemical vapor transport process (around 1200°C) to turn it into safe, dense, and sparkling crystalline structures.
* No Standard Exchange: Unlike gold, osmium has no public commodity exchange ticker; prices are set by specialized institutes and individual dealers based on processing and certification.
