It's Elemental
The Element Hassium
Hassium
Atomic Number: 108
Atomic Weight: 270
Melting Point: Unknown
Boiling Point: Unknown
Density: Unknown
Phase at Room Temperature: Solid
Element Classification: Metal
Period Number: 7
Group Number: 8
Group Name: none
Special Notes: Radioactive and Artificially Produced
What's in a name? From the Latin word for the German state of Hessen, Hassias.
Say what? Hassium is pronounced as HAS-ee-em.
History and Uses:
Hassium was first produced by Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Münzenber and their team working at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany in 1984. They bombarded atoms of lead-208 with ions of iron-58 with a device known as a linear accelerator. This produced atoms of hassium-265, an isotope with a half-life of about 2 milliseconds (0.002 seconds), and a free neutron.
Hassium's most stable isotope, hassium-270, has a half-life of about 22 seconds. It decays into seaborgium-266 through alpha decay.
Since only small amounts of hassium have ever been produced, it currently has no uses outside of basic scientific research.
Estimated Crustal Abundance: Not Applicable
Estimated Oceanic Abundance: Not Applicable
Number of Stable Isotopes: 0 (View all isotope data)
Ionization Energy: Unknown
Oxidation States: Unknown
1s2 | |
(Unconfirmed) | 2s2 2p6 |
3s2 3p6 3d10 | |
4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14 | |
5s2 5p6 5d10 5f14 | |
6s2 6p6 6d6 | |
7s2 |
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