The Three Heaviest/Densest Elements in the Periodic Table


Osmium

Osmium
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A gray-white metal, osmium is very hard, brittle, and difficult to work, even at high temperatures.Pure osmium metal does not occur in nature.The English chemist Smithson Tennant discovered the element together with iridium in the residues of platinum ores not soluble in aqua regia

Three cool facts about this element

  1. it is the densest element in the periodic table
  2. the boiling point is over 9,000
  3. melting point is over 5,400

hassium

hassium
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The hassium was found in 1984 by researchers Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenber in Darmstadt, Germany.

Three cool facts about this element

  1. highly radioactive
  2. It is 41 g/cm3 heaviest element
  3. melting point 1,719.3°F

Meitnerium

 Meitnerium
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it is artificially produced element.

Three cool facts about this element

  1. Meitnerium has seven isotopes
  2. it is highly radioactive metal
  3. fewer than 10 atoms of meitnerium have ever been made

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