Hassium
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Hassium is a chemical element. It has been named unniloctium and eka-osmium. It has the symbol Hs. It has the atomic number 108. It is a transuranium element.
Hassium is a radioactive element that does not exist in nature. It has to be made.
Hassium oxidises like osmium, the element above it in the periodic table. Hassium oxidises to hassium tetroxide. It is less volatile than osmium tetroxide.[1]
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[edit] History
Hassium was first made in 1984. It was made at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. The team that made darmstadtium was leda by by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg.
The element was named from the Latin name for the German state of Hessen. Hessen is the state that the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung is in.
Before it was named Hassium scientists could not decide what the name should be. There was a element naming controversy. The temporary IUPAC systematic element name was unniloctium. The symbol with the name aws Uno. In 1994 a committee of IUPAC recommended that element 108 be named hahnium. The name hassium was adopted internationally in 1997.
[edit] Hassium-270
Isotope 270 of Hassium was found in December 2006. An international team of scientists led by the Technical University of Munich found it. It is a doubly magic isotope. It has an long half-life of 22 seconds. Scienteists had thought that heavey and stable isotopes should exist. Some theories said Hassium-270 may be part of an island of stability.[2]
[edit] References
- ↑ "Chemistry of Hassium". Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (2002). Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
- ↑ Mason Inman (2006-12-14). "A Nuclear Magic Trick". Physical Review Focus. Retrieved on 2006-12-25.
- en:Hassium from the change at 10:49, 28 February 2007.