Atomic Properties of Hs
- Atomic Number of Hs
- 108
- Atomic Mass of Hs
- 277.0000 u
- Electron Configuration
- [Rn] 5f14 6d6 7s2
- Electronegativity
- —
- Block
- d-block
- Group
- 8
- Period
- 7
Hassium loves comparisons. He’s fascinated by his predicted resemblance to osmium, one of the densest metals. “Think of me as an echo,” he says, “just shorter and louder.”
He exists only in small bursts as nuclei created in accelerators, but theoretical work suggests he might behave like an ultra-heavy, very reluctant-to-react metal.
The labs that make him are meticulous, and so is he. Hassium likes symmetry, neat graphs, and clean decay chains.
He wears a small pin shaped like the German state of Hesse, where he was first synthesized, and seems very proud of the geography trivia.
Hassium is a fleeting metal with a solid sense of identity.