What makes you think the ore has iridium in it ?What is a standard procedure of turning iridium ore to iridium metal ?
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Sounds like a recipe for blindness. Usually alluvial iridium (not from ore, but from placer deposits) is always associated with osmium.
Be warned!
I will just explain what Lou correctly pointed out with his post.What is a standard procedure of turning iridium ore to iridium metal ? And how is the resale of iridium
Very trueI will just explain what Lou correctly pointed out with his post.
Iridium is commonly associated with osmium in the ores, and even ruthenium can be there, altough less likely.
When osmium is oxidized in strong oxidizing conditions - it converts to octavalent state - osmium tetroxide - OsO4 - which has very low boiling point and EVAPORATES from the melt or leach. Osmium tetroxide is extremely toxic compound, even in well setup industry, all manufacturers avoid its use (as catalyst for organic synthesis). It has very nasty feature - being very violent oxidant - to be reduced upon contact with tissue to lower valence osmium compounds - which are black and does not degrade in body on any circumstances. So vapors of OsO4 hit your retina in the eye, deposit there and turn black. Irreversibly. Making you blind forever. No cure.
Same story with ruthenium - which is actually used to visualize the fingerprints - vapors of RuO4 will contact grease from fingerprints and reduce themselves - turning black.
Osmium poisoning is in fact very rare, but the most important reason for that is that the Osmium itself is very rare.Although I’d believe it to be true and agree, all this is true in theory and no evidence is present in practical cases except for one as this article claims, where a lady aged 32 spilled 9ml of osmiium over her self, skin & eyes, and after some symptoms she managed to recover.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bcpt.13450
Even biggest guys in the organic chemistry industry refuse to allocate the facilities who work with osmium in synthesis to third world countries. They stopped to use it domestically completely (and trust me, replacing OsO4 as catalyst is sometimes impossible, and whole synthesis need to be completely re-established from scratch = immense money cost) and even refuse to use it abroad.Although I’d believe it to be true and agree, all this is true in theory and no evidence is present in practical cases except for one as this article claims, where a lady aged 32 spilled 9ml of osmiium over her self, skin & eyes, and after some symptoms she managed to recover.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bcpt.13450
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