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Pure osmium is extremely toxic! However, compounds of osmium are commonly used for fingerprinting ink and staining of fatty tissue samples in Biology. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium_tetroxide#Biological_staining

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