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Osmium

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a hard, dense, blue-grey metallic element, the densest naturally occurring element
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osme
Greek · ancient
"a smell, an odor"
a smell, since the element's oxide has a notably pungent odor
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osmium
English · 1803
"a hard, dense, blue-grey metallic element"
coined by its discoverer for the element's pungent-smelling oxide
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