Hassium - Periodic Table of Videos

[FlashFizz]

Hassium is predicted to have over forty times the density of water compared to around 22½ for both osmium and iridium. How about that?

[mrericsully]

I really appreciate that he admitted he didn't know anything and joked about making something up. Too many teachers are ashamed to admit they don't know an answer and so they will make stuff up or talk so far above students' heads and in circles that it sounds like they know something.

[demonman212]

this guy could have said anything about Hassium and i would have believed him

[GuppyMister]

me too.

[ButterflyNM14]

lol +30

[kawana87]

@demonman212 He should have said it tastes like candy :P I'd believe him.

[ConorC96]

i think you should produce Hassium, see what happens, then video it.

[jbeer82]

In addition, hassium is believed to spontaneous fission to explain why element 109 was found before 108

[jbeer82]

If I had the instruments, including a UNILAC

[jbeer82]

it is made by Bombarding Fe-58 projectiles by the Universal linear Accelerator  UNILAC (Universal linear accelerator) to bombard Pb 208 target

Hassium- 271 has a half life of ~11 minutes down to Hs-264 0.08 milliseconds

[dajwilkinson]

"I know nothing about Hassium, should we make something up?"

Priceless. This guy could have been a great politician :-)

[Didrik147]

I really laughed when Martyn was going to tell about Hassium: "Hassium, i know nothing about Hassium, should we make something up?"

[oerschti]

Hassium is from the latin name of the german state "Hessen" (with Frankfurt in the middle). It is made at GSI in Darmstadt and is the most long living element among the super heavy ones. So it can exist long enough to do even chemistry with it :o) we have made Hassium Oxide and have spectroscoped it.

[NW0Zezima]

Had a good laugh at the start of this vid haha!

"Should we make something up?"

[Rawr454]

Hahaha, Yeah.

[jaredmillion]

Very funny! Good try though! :-)

[DuskY1991]

But, it's radioactive so not really useful :D Lol. Nice video. :D

[afishwish]

I just listened to you on Radio 4. This is an excellent idea and it looks like you are having a lot of fun with it.

[batjutsu]

Funny video, but please make a comedy version as that should be great ;-)

[AlmightScoop]

hahah. Theres quite a few obscure ones on this end of the periodic table. What makes it worse is that you can't really make rigerous theoretical predictions about these element because the nucleus is so positively charged that the electons near it move close to the speed of light and succumb to the effects of relativity, screwing up the equations. I suffered this problem when doing a theoretical study of krypton complexes :-(

[RJLeffmann]

I myself, surprisingly, know absolutely nothing about Hassium either.

[Tolrias]

should we make something up , LOL good one :D

[CharlieBBoy12345]

Love the start of this vid!

[0c4pnh4nk]

I don't know anything about Hassium either.