Osmiridium
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| Osmiridium | |
|---|---|
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| Properties | |
| Type | Natural Alloy |
| Made With/By | Heavy Ore Processing |
| Difficulty of Production | Extremely Hard |
| Exists in Reality | Yes |
| Atomic Number | N/A |
Behold, mortal, the most expensive "ore" in the mod (you need to sacrifice a Gerald for this very ore).
Osmiridium (sometimes iridosmine) is a naturally occurring alloy between osmium (element #76) and iridium (element #77), thus the portmanteau. It isn't possible to acquire on Earth, but there are deposits deep within the Moon. It is possibly the densest material in all of NTM, somehow, possibly even exceeding dineutronium.
Production
You can obtain this from osmiridium-infused tektite. This ore requires a very strenuous refinement process to produce the purified osmiridium metal in ingot form.
Refining Process
- Find osmiridium-infused tektite ore at the impact site, it's hard to miss.
- Mine it and bring it to your shredder.
- Get the tektite powder it makes. Bring them to your centrifuge.
- All you need is the small paleogenite powder, everything else is waste or nonessential byproducts.
- Combine the small powders into normal powders and bring them to your chemical plant.
- Gather 8 fluorite, 4 bismuth nuggets, 1,000 mB of hydrogen peroxide, and said powder.
- Process it to make osmiridic solution (which can only be carried on person with hazardous material barrels).
- Process it in your SILEX (pretty sure you need gamma for this).
- Process all of the solution, it will make impure osmiridium powder. It is a 100% conversion rate, so no need to worry about random chance.
- Process powder in your crystallizer/acidizer and wait until it becomes crystals (effectiveness upgrade highly recommended to give the possibility of duplication).
- Smelt the crystals in any furnace to produce 1 ingot per crystal.
Uses
Trivia
- In real life, the proportion of the two elements can vary greatly. It can also contain trace amounts of other platinum group metals.
- It is generally harder than the two constituent elements by themselves, though its other properties are usually shared or some combination of those two elements.
- It can be found in real life, usually in mines for other platinum group metals, but it is very rare.
- Osmiridium is highly corrosion resistant, since it can resist aqua regia, which can dissolve gold and platinum, other highly corrosion resistant metals.
- This likely relates to the 7th step of the aforementioned refinement process with the osmiridic solution.