Definition of "osmic" [os•mic]

• Of, relating to, or containing osmium, especially in a compound with a valence of 4 or a valence higher than that in a comparable osmous compound. (adjective)
• Of or relating to odors or the sense of smell. (adjective)

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• "The resultant puke itself, of course, added to the savage osmic holocaust which more than crime, more than despair, more than the appalling sense of victimisation and neglect turned those places (ghastly enough in their nylon carpeted, vending-machine, strip-lit healthy incarnations) into an idea of hell that the combined imaginations of Hieronymus Bosch, Dante and Antonin Artaud could never conjure up."
• "Exhibition of 1883 were prepared in this manner, and such objects as the sea-anemones, with tentacles expanded as in life, may have been instantaneously killed by osmic acid."
• "Osmium tetroxide (OsO_ {4}) is a very volatile liquid and is used under the name of osmic acid as a stain for sections in microscopy."