noun
- a synthetic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Hs and atomic number 108
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- Hassium is one of the heaviest elements on the periodic table.
- Scientists first synthesized hassium in 1984 at a German research facility.
- The element hassium was named after the German state of Hesse.
- Hassium has a very short half-life and decays rapidly.
- Only a few atoms of hassium have ever been produced in laboratories.
- Researchers study hassium to understand the properties of superheavy elements.