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->    I have a strange request ... does anyone in netland know where I can
->get some of osmium?  
->
->    I have heard it is the most dense substance on earth, denser than 
->gold or lead. I think it would be fun to have a baseball size hunk of it 
->on my desk as a paper weight.
->

I remember a few years ago (like maybe 20) that some brand of ball point
pen was advertised to have an osmium tip.  You could get a few hundred 
thousand old pens, castrate them, test them to see which balls are 
osmium (smell them?) and melt them down. But seriously, what property
of osmium would make it a choice for a ball-point pen tip?

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"The perversity of Nature is nowhere better demonstrated than by the fact
that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, bread becomes hard while
crackers become soft."