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Osmium vs. ‘Ptène’: The Naming of the Densest Metal
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This paper reviews the use and relation of the word ‘ptène’ to osmium. While Smithson Tennant discovered osmium in platinum ore in 1804, the French chemists Antoine-François Fourcroy and Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin simultaneously identified in a platinum residue a metal they called ‘ptène’. This name was most probably attributed to a mixture of platinoids (excluding platinum), mainly osmium and iridium. Nevertheless, Fourcroy later considered that ‘ptène’ was the name they attributed to osmium.
Title: Osmium vs. ‘Ptène’: The Naming of the Densest Metal
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This paper reviews the use and relation of the word ‘ptène’ to osmium.
While Smithson Tennant discovered osmium in platinum ore in 1804, the French chemists Antoine-François Fourcroy and Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin simultaneously identified in a platinum residue a metal they called ‘ptène’.
This name was most probably attributed to a mixture of platinoids (excluding platinum), mainly osmium and iridium.
Nevertheless, Fourcroy later considered that ‘ptène’ was the name they attributed to osmium.
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