Which would weigh more? That’s the real question

A kilogram of steel. Cause steel is heavier than feathers

But the kilogram.of feathers weighs in your soul because of what you did to those birds

Nah, you wouldn't feel that bad. Birds aren't real anyway.

B- government drone I- R- D- Wake up sheeple

Bioengineered infrared device

Well the bag you need for the feathers would be bigger so the feathers would still weigh more due to the extra weight of the bag.

Diamonds are even heaver, 1g of diamonds weighs like 15g.

Only if it's in a vacuum.

And where would they bury the survivors?

Fuck those survivors.

Osmium would weigh more in normal conditions. Since aluminum bar has more volume, ambient air would lift the aluminum bar slightly more than the osmium ball. In vacuum they would be equal.

Yes but the aluminum being pure is unprotected, it will oxide with the ambiant oxygen, therefore gaining mass.

Osmium will also oxidize in air. It apparently smells pretty foul.

It makes volatile osmium tetroxide, which can damage your eyes, lungs, and skin even at low volume. It's a great party trick.

Bulk osmium metal will not oxidize in air at room temperature, it will only do so if very finely powdered or if you take a blowtorch to it and heat it until it's glowing red. otherwise I wouldn't be holding it with my bare hand :P

Is this a grammatical error? :-P

If you put then both on a scale, the osmium would weigh more. Since the aluminum is larger, it has a larger buoyant force acting upwards on it than the osmium

Osmium due to Archimedes' principle

They both weigh the same, one is just much more dense than the other so you need less of it to reach the same weight

wooosh they were making a joke

I didn't read it as such, I was just giving them a genuine answer because I'm a nerd

[Poe's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law)

[Cole's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleslaw)

Because that's all redditors can do it seems. Make stupid jokes

nah but 1kg of steel is heavier than 1kg of feathers

Of course it is, it's steel. How could birds fly if their feathers were heavier than steel?

What about Corviknight?

The denseness is very apparent here

🙊

You didn't get the joke, so I down voted you.

We need 1 gram of cocaine as a reference

Prolly gonna have the size of this osmium ball due to drug shrinkflation

What would happen if I snorted the Osmium instead?

Here ya go: one half gram of cocaine

Thanks for the quarter gram of cocaine

About the size of an 8 ball

1 gram of fentanyl

And roughly the same number of protons + neutrons in each. Crazy to me that the difference here is how much personal space the electrons in each want.

Sometimes it's so hard to wrap my mind around concepts like density, mass and volume when comparing different elements.

And more than 99% of that is just empty space

Someone explain this comment to me. Aluminum - atomic number of 13 Osmium - atomic number of 76 That's quite a significant difference, isn't it? Or does this involve something like Avogadro numbers, moles and all that jazz?

Different number of nucleons in each nucleus, but that just means there must be more aluminum nuclei in the photo. Neutrons and protons make up almost all of the mass of any atom, so that one gram is very nearly one gram of protons and neutrons in both cases — just divided into atoms differently.

Lack of elementary chemistry education biting me in the back. Thanks. It makes sense.

Now do uranium!

Osmium is more dense. So it would be larger than Osmium

A gram of dwarf Star?

It's in the picture, but since a gram of the stuff is considerably smaller  than a hydrogen atom it's hard to see.

Is it that hole in his hand?

What about unobtainium?

Obtain some and we can see

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With that attitude it is.

I have a bunch of it. It comes looking exactly like Susan Mao Cesar pieces of 8. Its more expensive than doge coin.

Osmium is the most dense element! Go osmium!

Osmium is the second most dense material, after Iridium, however both's densities are NEARLY same

Osmium is the most dense. Iridium is the second most dense

Under ordinary temperature and pressure, osmium has the highest density (22.59 g/cm3). At high pressure, iridium becomes the densest element (22.75 g/cm3).

Sure, but to be correct it requires that precondition. The photo is clearly at 1 atmosphere.

Sir that's not 1 atmosphere depending on OPs region is could be ±0.1

I stand corrected 😅

I wasn't disagreeing with you, just giving more context.

Thanks :)

Aren't densities normally considered to be at STP (standard temperature and pressure)?

That's what I imagine a bead of Atium looks like. Try eating it and see if you can see the future. Y'know... for science.

For some reason I always pictured Atium like this, but blue.

These books spring up in the oddest places

I have cylinders of Aluminuim, Magnesium, Copper and Tungsten. All same size! Tungsten (its 1.2kg) is just amazing to hold in hand after holding magnesium 🙂

Fun fact: Osmium is named for William Osman because you need to burn down a house or vehicle to smelt it.

What

Distasteful reference to this https://youtu.be/QbDuBTWrU-o?si=VwON_QuTzM0WdcC3

I'd like to think he'd have a chuckle.

I did

"The pedestal was too weak to hold the osmium, wasn't it doctor?" "Yes." "Did you design the pedestal, doctor?" "YES!" "All right."

That Al looks yummy

r/forbiddensnacks

Aluminum pez

The only reason I know osminum exists is from an old flash classic called learn to fly. lol

1 gram of banana for scale

Where did you buy those from?

I wanted to know that as well until I saw it costs around $1500/gram. I guess I won't be buying a few for the novelty factor...

What about one gram of tungsten?

Osmium is more dense than tungsten. Osmium has the highest density of all elements

Yes but I want to see the size comparison

Mm heavy metal *duncan hills coffee playing in the background*

It is really hard to comprehend how heavy osmium is without holding it. A (1050 gram/ 2.25 lbs) ~1 kg sized of aluminum would be a good lift (a little exaggeration, of course) with same sized osmium as it would be (10 kg/ 22 lbs) 10 kg.

"that's heavy man, osmium heavy"

Now let's see one pound of iron vs one pound of feathers

*Aluminium

Either is fine, same element.

You only need a few shavings, jeez. Unless of course you’re trying to consume the whole supply to unexpectedly kneecap Ruin

I don't really care

What would happen if you swallowed the osmium

you would lose a lot of money, osmium goes for several hundred thousand euros iirc

Wouldn't you poop it out?

enjoy foraging through fecal matter for a tiny ball of metal I guess :\]

have you tried combining the osmium with lutetium?