What Is Darmstadtium

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Discovery Information
Who: GSI (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung)
When: 1994
Where: Darmstadt, West Germany

Name Origin
Element was officially named on August the 16th 2003 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) at a meeting in Ottawa, Canada. The name honours the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (called GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, where the substance was first made.
"Darmstadtium" in different languages.

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A synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. Chemically, the element is in the same Group as nickel, palladium, and platinum (Group 10). Unlike these lighter atoms, element 110 decays after a small fraction of a thousandth of a second into lighter elements by emitting a-particles which are the nuclei of helium atoms.




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