What is the most dense metal in the world.?

Question

There are many materials in the world like steel, iron, copper, etc etc. which is the most dense metal?

Answer 1

depleted uranium

Answer 2

Iridium

http://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/077/

Answer 3

Osmium is the densest metal in the world; about 26 grams per cc. It's non-radioactive and costs a few hundred bucks an ounce.

Answer 4

Lutetium
(Lu), chemical element, rare-earth metal of transition Group IIIb of the periodic table; the hardest and densest rare-earth element, last member of the lanthanide series. Lutetium was discovered (1907–08) by Carl Auer von Welsbach and Georges Urbain, working independently. Urbain derived the name for the element from Lutetia, which was the ancient Roman name for Paris. The name Urbain gave it to honour Paris, his native city, became widely accepted, except in Germany, where it was commonly called cassiopeium until the 1950s. One of the rarest of the rare earths, lutetium occurs in rare-earth minerals such as xenotime and euxenite. Though it composes only about 0.003 percent of the commercially important mineral monazite, it has proved feasible to extract it as a by-product. Separation and purification are accomplished by ion-exchange techniques. Lutetium is also found in the products of nuclear fission. The metal has been prepared by thermoreduction of the anhydrous halides by alkali or alkaline-earth metals. It has the highest melting point of the rare-earth elements. Natural lutetium consists of two isotopes: stable lutetium-175 (97.41 percent) and radioactive lutetium-176 (2.59 percent, 3 ´ 1010-year half-life). The radioactive isotope is used to determine the age of meteorites relative to that of the Earth. Few other uses have been found for lutetium.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049429/lutetium

Answer 5

Nominally iridium (22.65 gm/cm3), versus osmium (22.61 gm/cm3), but the figures are not known precisely enough to be sure which is truly the more dense.

Most common metals have density from 7.5 to 9.0 gm/cm3.

Answer 6

osmium

Answer 7

adamantium