Hassium 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.
Hassium's appearance is unknown but it is suspected to be silvery white or metallic grey in color. Little is known about the element and it has no known uses. Hassium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment.
Hassium is a is a D-Block, Group 8, Period 7 element. The number of electrons in each of Hassium's shells is 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 14, 2 and its electronic configuration is [Rn] 5f14 6d6 7s2. In its elemental form Hassium's CAS number is 54037-57-9
Hassium was first created in 1984 by a team headed by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenber at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory in Darmstadt, Germany.
Hassium |
Hassium |
Hassio |
Hassio |
Hassio |
Hassium |
Abundance. The following table shows the abundance of Hassium and each of its naturally occurring isotopes on Earth along with the atomic mass for each isotope.
| Isotope |
Atomic Mass |
% Abundance on Earth |
| Hs-263 |
263.1287 |
- |
| Hs-264 |
264.1284 |
- |
| Hs-265 |
265.13016 (99) |
- |
| Hs-266 |
266.1300 |
- |
| Hs-267 |
267.1318 |
- |
| Hs-268 |
268.1321 |
- |
| Hs-269 |
269.1341 |
- |
| Hs-277 |
277 |
- |
The following table shows the abundance of Hassium present in the human body and in the universe scaled to parts per billion (ppb) by weight and by atom:
| |
Typical Human Body |
Universe |
| by Weight |
- |
- |
| by Atom |
- |
- |
Ionization Energy. The ionization energy for Hassium (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
|
| 2nd Ionization Energy |
kJ mol-1
|
Conductivity. No data.
Thermal Properties. The melting point and boiling point for Hassium 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 Hassium
Chemical experiments with superheavy elements.
Türler A.
Chimia (Aarau). 2010;64(5):293-8.PMID: 21138073 [PubMed]
Chemical characterization of element 112.
Eichler R, Aksenov NV, Belozerov AV, Bozhikov GA, Chepigin VI, Dmitriev SN, Dressler R, Gäggeler HW, Gorshkov VA, Haenssler F, Itkis MG, Laube A, Lebedev VY, Malyshev ON, Oganessian YTs, Petrushkin OV, Piguet D, Rasmussen P, Shishkin SV, Shutov AV, Svirikhin AI, Tereshatov EE, Vostokin GK, Wegrzecki M, Yeremin AV.
Nature. 2007 May 3;447(7140):72-5.PMID: 17476264 [PubMed]
A gauge-independent zeroth-order regular approximation to the exact relativistic Hamiltonian--formulation and applications.
Filatov M, Cremer D.
J Chem Phys. 2005 Jan 22;122(4):44104.PMID: 15740232 [PubMed]
Chemical investigation of hassium (element 108).
Düllmann ChE, Brüchle W, Dressler R, Eberhardt K, Eichler B, Eichler R, Gäggeler HW, Ginter TN, Glaus F, Gregorich KE, Hoffman DC, Jäger E, Jost DT, Kirbach UW, Lee DM, Nitsche H, Patin JB, Pershina V, Piguet D, Qin Z, Schädel M, Schausten B, Schimpf E, Schött HJ, Soverna S, Sudowe R, Thörle P, Timokhin SN, Trautmann N, Türler A, Vahle A, Wirth G, Yakushev AB, Zielinski PM.
Nature. 2002 Aug 22;418(6900):859-62.PMID: 12192405 [PubMed] |