Hassium is a synthetic, highly radioactive chemical element. It belongs to the transition metal family and is represented by the chemical symbol Hs. Hassium is solid at room temperature and is one of the densest elements due to the presence of 108 protons in its nucleus. It is a member of group 8 and period 7 of the periodic table of elements34. Hassium is produced in small quantities and has a very short half-life.
Hassium is an artificial element and does not exist in nature. Around a hundred atoms of hassium have been synthesized till date. Physical Characteristics Hassium is a silvery metal and predicted to be a solid under normal conditions.
Hassium was first made by a team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenber at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany in 1984. They bombarded lead-208 with iron-58 nuclei to produce three atoms of hassium. The name hassium is derived from the Latin name for the German state of Hesse. Hassium is a highly radioactive element that has no stable or natural isotopes. It belongs to the group 8 of the periodic table, along with iron, ruthenium, and osmium. Hassium is expected to have similar chemical properties to osmium, such as forming a volatile tetroxide when exposed to oxygen. Hassium has no known uses outside of scientific research
Hassium has no commercial use as only small amounts of it have been made. Its current use is for scientific study only. Some of the compounds of other elements in the same group as hassium are used in solid-state devices such as transistors and rectifiers, and some form the basis for light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers.
Sources: Hassium was first synthesized by bombarding lead-208 with iron-58 nuclei. Only 3 atoms of hassium were produced at this time. In 1968, Russian scientist Victor Cherdyntsev claimed to have discovered naturally-occurring hassium in a sample of molybdenite, but this was not verified. To date, hassium has not been found in nature.