| Hassium [Hs] (CAS-ID: 54037-57-9) | |
| An: 108 N: 157 Am: [269] g/mol | |
| Group No: 8 Group Name: (none) | |
| Block: d-block Period: 7 | |
| State: presumably a solid at 298 K | |
| Colour: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance Classification: Metallic | |
| Boiling Point: unknown (?) | |
| Melting Point: unknown (?) | |
| Density: unknown | |
| Availability: Hassium, is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. | |
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 Discovery Information
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| Who: Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Munzenber, et al. |
| When: 1984 |
| Where: GSI, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Name Origin
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| Latin "Hassias" meaning "Hess", the German state. |
| Sources
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| Synthetically prepared element. |
| Uses
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| None. |
| Notes
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| In August of 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the official naming of this element as Hassium. |
| Element 108 was previously known as Unniloctium; from the latin for "one zero eight". |