DROWNING IN MOLTEN IRIDIUM

Iridium is a fascinating metal which is commonly found in gravel with platinum deposites. It's uses include but are certainly not limited to combining with osmium to tip gold pen points, making crucibles and special containers, making alloys used for standard weights and measures, and heat-resistant alloys, incancer irradiation, hypodermic needles, helicopter spark plugs and as hardening agent for platinum. One who already knew this much about Iridium would also probably know that it melts at a temperature of 4429°F. That's also not to say that it is fluid enough to drown in at that point either. So one might ask, how do you get unescapeably submerged in near boiling Iridium and live long enough to drown in it. Let's just hope you never are unfortunate or irresponsible enough to find out!

Information on Iridium was taken from http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/Ir.html#Overview