Element 108 · Solid at room temperature
Hassium
Hassium is atom number 108 — every Hassium atom has exactly 108 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Hassium and nothing else. Its symbol is Hs. At room temperature it is a solid.
Hassium is a chemical element with symbol Hs and atomic number 108, named after the German state of Hesse. It is a synthetic element (an element that can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature) and radioactive; the most stable known isotope, 269Hs, has a half-life of approximately 9.7 seconds, although an unconfirmed metastable state, 277mHs, may have a longer half-life of about 130 seconds. More than 100 atoms of hassium have been synthesized to date.
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Hassium sits in period 7, group 8 of the d-block. Its 108 electrons fill shells of 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 14, 2 — written as *[Rn] 5f14 6d6 7s2. Its electronegativity is — on the Pauling scale. The outermost shell holds 2 electrons — the ones that do all the chemistry.
Full configuration: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s2 4d10 5p6 6s2 4f14 5d10 6p6 7s2 5f14 6d6
Electron affinity: — kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
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Density: 40.7
g/cm³ · melts 126 K · boils —
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
269u
Density
40.7g/cm³
Melts
126 K
Boils
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The units on this page — explained by Unitii
Hassium's family
Elements in the same column share their outer-electron count, so they behave alike.
Source
Discovered by Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung.
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