osmiridium

1. 1.

   a hard and corrosion resistant mineral that is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium (usually containing small amounts of rhodium and platinum); used in needles and pen nibs etc.

   Synonymsiridosmine

   Broadermineral

Other forms of osmiridium

plural

osmiridiums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about osmiridium

What does osmiridium mean?

osmiridium means "a hard and corrosion resistant mineral that is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium (usually containing small amounts of rhodium and platinum); used in needles and pen nibs etc.".

How many syllables are in osmiridium?

osmiridium has 5 syllables: o-smi-ri-di-um. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for osmiridium?

Close synonyms include iridosmine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is osmiridium a common word?

osmiridium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.