The Top 5 Heaviest Elements on Earth

  Element Density Year Discovered Discovered by Cost per troy ounce
1 Osmium 22.59 g/cm3@20c 1804 Smithson Tennant $400.00
2 Iridium 22.56 g/cm3@20c 1804 Smithson Tennant $500.00
3 Platinum 21.45 g/cm3@20c 1735 Charles Wood $870.00
4 Rhenium 21.01 g/cm3@20c 1925 Walter K. Noddack $1150.00
5 Neptunium 20.47 g/cm3@20c 1940 Edwin M. McMillan and P. H. Abelson $9,000
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List Notes: Price is as of June, 2005
Heaviest Elements on Earth

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