In 1803, the English chemist Smithson Tennant (FRS)identified osmium, naming it after the Greek language word osme, meaning a smell, because of it's ashen, smoky smell.
Osmium tetroxide
From Greek osmē, smell (from the strong odor of osmium tetroxide).Named osmium after http://www.answers.com/topic/greek-language osme meaning "a smell", because of the smell of the volatile osmium tetroxide
The chemical compound name for OsCl4 is Osmium tetrachloride.
Osmium chlorite
The letter O was already used as the symbol for oxygen. Therefore the symbol for Osmium was the first two letters of the element's name.
Osmium is a metal
Osmium itself has no smell. The "smell" (the name "osmium" comes from the Greek for "smell") is from the volatile osmium tetroxide, and while it may be futile to attempt to describe a smell, it's generally said to be an acrid scent similar to that of chlorine.
Is osmium magnetic?
osmium
Osmium is a metal with a blue-gray appearance.
Osmium is in block d.
Yes, osmium is a metal and is conductive.