Hassium
Element
Miguel Cardenas
Period 7
Element Hassium
Periodic Table Information
- The symbol for Hassium is Hs
- Hassium is the 108th on the table
- Its located in the 8th group
- Its in the Transition metal family
- The period is the 7th group
Where it's found in Nature and it's uses and Characteristics
Hassium is produced artificially and only small amount have been made
Hassium is a highly radioactive metal, of which only a few atoms have ever been made
Hassium is only used in research
Chemical and Physical Properties
Chemical properties of Hassium are the melting and boiling point are unknown, vanderwaals radius unknown, ionic radius unknown.
Physical properties of hassium are that it's a solid
The atomic mass of Hassium is 277u
History
Hassium was discovered in 1984 by a german research team lead by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Munzenberg at Germany's Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt
Interesting Facts about Hassium
Hassium was named for the German State Hessen .
All nine of it's isotopes have extremely short lives .
The most stable is 270HS with a half life of 22 seconds .
If a large quantity of Hassium is ever made scientist expect it to be a silvery-colored metal that reacts quite readily with oxygen in the air to create a highly volatile tetroxide.
My sources
www.chemicool.com/elements/hassium.htmlGoogle
rsc.org
www.livescience.com/40757-facts-about-hassium.html
softschools.com