Atomic Properties of Ds
- Atomic Number of Ds
- 110
- Atomic Mass of Ds
- 281.0000 u
- Electron Configuration
- [Rn] 5f14 6d8 7s2
- Electronegativity
- —
- Block
- d-block
- Group
- 10
- Period
- 7
Darmstadtium wears a scarf patterned with street maps. Named after the city of Darmstadt in Germany, he feels like an ambassador from a place most people haven’t heard of but absolutely should.
He’s created in heavy-ion collisions and lives for fractions of a second, but in that time, he dutifully behaves like a very heavy group-10 metal, nodding politely toward nickel, palladium, and platinum.
He keeps postcards from Darmstadt’s research center on his desk and talks about accelerator halls like they’re tourist attractions.
Darmstadtium doesn’t stick around, but his name ensures the city does.