Darmstadtium information, including Technical Data, Safety Data and its high purity properties, research, applications and other useful facts are discussed below. Scientific facts such as the atomic structure, ionization energy, abundance on Earth, conductivity and thermal properties are included.
Darmstadtium's appearance is unknown. Little is known about the element and it has no known uses. Darmstadtium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment.
Darmstadtium is a is a D-Block, Group 10, Period 7 element. The number of electrons in each of Darmstadtium's shells is 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 17, 1 and its electronic configuration is [Rn]7s15f146d9. In its elemental form Darmstadtium's CAS number is 54083-77-1.
Made by fusing nickel atoms and lead atoms, Darmstadtium was first synthesized in 1994 at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg, under the direction of professor Sigurd Hofmann.
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Abundance. The following table shows the abundance of Darmstadtium and each of its naturally occurring isotopes on Earth along with the atomic mass for each isotope.
| Isotope |
Atomic Mass |
% Abundance on Earth |
| Ds-267 |
267.1440 |
- |
| Ds-268 |
268.1435 |
- |
| Ds-269 |
269.1451 |
- |
| Ds-270 |
270.1446 |
- |
| Ds-271 |
271.1461 |
- |
| Ds-272 |
272.1463 |
- |
| Ds-273 |
273.1492 |
- |
| Ds-280 |
280 |
- |
| Ds-281 |
281 |
- |
The following table shows the abundance of Darmstadtium present in the human body and in the universe scaled to parts per billion (ppb) by weight and by atom:
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Typical Human Body |
Universe |
| by Weight |
- |
- |
| by Atom |
- |
- |
Ionization Energy. The ionization energy for Darmstadtium (the least required energy to release a single electron from the atom in it's ground state in the gas phase) is stated in the following table:
| 1st Ionization Energy |
kJ mol-1
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| 2nd Ionization Energy |
kJ mol-1
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Conductivity. No data.
Thermal Properties. The melting point and boiling point for Darmstadtium are stated below. The following chart sets forth the heat of fusion, heat of vaporization and heat of atomization.
| Heat of Fusion |
No data |
| Heat of Vaporization |
No data |
| Heat of Atomization |
No data |
Recent Research & Development for Darmstadtium
Patzschke M, Pyykkö P. Darmstadtium carbonyl and carbide resemble platinum carbonyl and carbide. Chem Commun (Camb). 2004 Sep 7;(17):1982-3. Epub 2004 Jul 27. PubMed PMID: 15340632.
Research updated 8/9/2011
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