The picture shows the availability of precious metals worldwide. The globally available amount of gold fits into a cube with an edge length of 22 meters. In terms of quantity, OSMIUM is the rarest of all precious metals in our earth’s crust, as there is 1,500 times less of it than gold and 2,500 times less of it than silver.
Crystalline OSMIUM is ~ 20x more precious than gold and has the highest value in terms of volume among all precious metals.
1 pure ounce of osmium = 31.1 g.
Silver
$31,16
Gold
$2.646,17
Osmium
$51.482,93
Crystalline OSMIUM has a steel blue color. Its unique bluish-silvery to bluish-whitish reflection of light extends beyond that of a diamond. The light does not refract on the crystal surface and has a remarkable reflection.
Osmium was toxic until 2014, when Swiss scientists accidentally discovered the possibility that they could crystallise osmium. The process is extremely complex and time consuming, with as many as 50 interdependent variables (temperature, pressure, gas content, etc.). If only one of these variables deviates, the crystallisation process is unsuccessful.
Since its launch in 2014, the price of crystalline OSMIUM has been steadily increasing and is very stable.
At the same volume, the weight of osmium is twice the weight of lead. With 22.61 g/cm3 osmium has the highest density of all precious metals
OSMIUM is an element with atomic number 76 in the periodic table of the elements. It cannot be produced chemically/artificially.
The crystalline OSMIUM has a purity of 99.9995%. In its crystalline form osmium is completely harmless to the body and skin.
Because of its durability OSMIUM keeps its shine forever. For example, it is also resistant to hydrochloric acid. Its abrasion resistance exceeds all other substances.
The crystalline OSMIUM has a value of 7.5 on the Mosh hardness scale and is as hard as tungsten and harder than silver and gold whose hardness is 2.7 and 2.5.
Each piece of osmium is unique. Its surface structure has a 10,000 times higher accuracy than a fingerprint.
