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Re: It was something we used to do in the 80s

I remember one time one of the researchers with whom I shared a refrigerator warned me about a tube of osmium tetroxide ...

I do sincerely hope that was a chemical refrigerator, fitted with an exhaust (this is a requirement for OsO₄ storage, straight from its MSDS). Osmium tetroxide has a remarkable capacity for penetrating through lightest openings; it would also corrode through many protective barriers at an eye-watering speed, chemically speaking. The MSDS gives 0.1mm/hour for neoprene, which is usually quite chemically robust.