Hassium (Hs)
transition-metalSolid
Standardatomgewicht
[270]Elektronenkonfiguration
[Rn] 7s2 5f14 6d6Schmelzpunkt
N/ASiedepunkt
N/ADichte
4,07e+4 kg/m³Oxidationszustände
+3, +4, +6, +8Elektronegativität (Pauling)
N/AIonisierungsenergie (1.)
7,6 eVEntdeckungsjahr
1984Atomradius
126 pmDetails
Hassium is a synthetic transactinide element in group 8, below osmium. It is known only from atom-at-a-time production in heavy-ion reactions, and all confirmed isotopes are radioactive and short-lived. Its chemistry is important mainly because it tests whether very heavy elements still follow periodic trends despite strong relativistic effects. Experiments show behavior consistent with a heavy osmium analogue, especially in the formation of a volatile tetroxide.
Hassium does not occur naturally in the Earth’s crust. Hassium was first synthesized by German scientists at the GSI Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany in 1984 using the nuclear reaction 208Pb (58Fe, n) 265Hs (Fig. IUPAC.108.1). The element is named for Hassia (the Latin name for the German state of Hesse), whose former capital was Darmstadt [651], [652], [653]. Hassium is used in chemical and heavy element research.
Hassium was first produced by Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Münzenber and their team working at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany in 1984. They bombarded atoms of lead-208 with ions of iron-58 with a device known as a linear accelerator. This produced atoms of hassium-265, an isotope with a half-life of about 2 milliseconds (0.002 seconds), and a free neutron. Hassium's most stable isotope, hassium-270, has a half-life of about 22 seconds. It decays into seaborgium-266 through alpha decay.
Its name is Latin "Hassias" meaning "Hess," from the German state. Discovered by Peter Armbruster, Gottfried Munzenber and co-workers at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany in 1984.
No macroscopic sample of hassium has been prepared, so its visible appearance is unknown. Calculations predict a dense metallic solid under ordinary conditions, but color, crystal form, and most bulk physical properties have not been observed directly.
Hassium has no commercial, medical, or industrial use. Its use is confined to nuclear and chemical research, where individual atoms are made to study superheavy-element stability, decay chains, and relativistic effects on chemical behavior. Chemical experiments with hassium are also used to test group 8 periodicity at the end of the known periodic table. The element is not available in quantities suitable for materials testing or applied technology.
Since only small amounts of hassium have ever been produced, it currently has no uses outside of basic scientific research.
The best-established chemical species is hassium tetroxide (HsO₄), formed in atom-at-a-time gas-phase experiments under oxidizing conditions. Its behavior is broadly comparable to osmium tetroxide (OsO₄), supporting the placement of hassium in group 8 and the accessibility of the +8 oxidation state. Other oxidation states and compounds are mainly predicted from theory or inferred by analogy with ruthenium and osmium. No isolable bulk hassium compound has been characterized.
See more information at the Hassium compound page.
Hassium isotopes are intensely radioactive on an atom-by-atom basis, decaying mainly by alpha emission and spontaneous fission, depending on the isotope. Because only a few atoms are produced, ordinary chemical toxicity has no practical relevance. The real hazards in hassium work come from accelerator operations, radioactive targets and products, recoil collection systems, and contamination control in specialized laboratories.
Hassium has no confirmed natural occurrence and no known environmental cycle. Atoms produced in laboratories decay rapidly, so environmental transport, bioaccumulation, and ecological effects have not been observed. If released as individual atoms or simple compounds, its chemistry would probably resemble that of a very heavy group 8 element, but this remains experimentally limited and environmentally irrelevant at present production scales.
Hassium has no commodity market, no industrial demand, and no practical supply chain. It is produced only in specialized nuclear laboratories by bombarding heavy actinide or lead targets with accelerated ions, yielding at most small numbers of atoms. The limiting factors are accelerator access, target preparation, detection efficiency, and isotope half-life rather than raw material price. There is no recycling or stockpiling of hassium as a usable material, because produced atoms decay during the experiment.
Formed by the bombardment of lead-208 with iron-58.
Hassium is not expected to persist as a primordial element because its known isotopes have half-lives far too short on geological or cosmic timescales. Superheavy nuclei in this mass region may be formed transiently in extreme neutron-rich nucleosynthesis, but no extraterrestrial hassium has been detected. Any such atoms would decay into lighter nuclides unless an unknown long-lived isotope existed.
- Hassium was named after Hesse, the German state where it was first synthesized.
- Its chemical study has been performed with single atoms carried through apparatus before they decay.
- The volatile tetroxide was central to confirming its group 8 character.
- Known hassium isotopes are identified largely through their decay chains.
- No weighed sample of hassium has ever existed.
Bilder
Eigenschaften
Physikalisch
- Atomradius (empirisch)
- 126 pm Vergleiche Atomradius (empirisch) aller Elemente →
- Dichte
- 4,07 × 104 kg/m³ Vergleiche Dichte aller Elemente →
Chemisch
- Elektronenaffinität
- 1,1 eV
- Ionisierungsenergie (1.)
- 7,6 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (1.) aller Elemente →
- Ionisierungsenergie (2.)
- 18,200063 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (2.) aller Elemente →
- Ionisierungsenergie (3.)
- 29,300101 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (3.) aller Elemente →
- Ionisierungsenergie (4.)
- 37,70013 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (4.) aller Elemente →
- Ionisierungsenergie (5.)
- 51,200176 eV Vergleiche Ionisierungsenergie (5.) aller Elemente →
- Oxidationszustände
- +3, +4, +6, +8 Vergleiche Oxidationszustände aller Elemente →
- Valenzelektronen
- 8 Vergleiche Valenzelektronen aller Elemente →
- Elektronenkonfiguration
- [Rn] 7s2 5f14 6d6
Thermodynamisch
N/A
Nuklear
- Protonen
- 108 Vergleiche Protonen aller Elemente →
- Neutronen
- 161 Vergleiche Neutronen aller Elemente →
- Bekannte Isotope
- 18 Vergleiche Bekannte Isotope aller Elemente →
- Stabile Isotope
- 0 Vergleiche Stabile Isotope aller Elemente →
- Massenzahl (stabilstes)
- 270
- Stabilstes Isotop
- Hs-269
- Entdeckungsjahr
- 1984
Häufigkeit
N/A
Kristallstruktur
N/A
Elektronische Struktur
- Elektronen pro Schale
- 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 14, 2 Vergleiche Elektronen pro Schale aller Elemente →
Identifikatoren
- CAS-Nummer
- 54037-57-9 Vergleiche CAS-Nummer aller Elemente →
- Termsymbol
- 4
- InChI
- InChI=1S/Hs
- InChI-Key
- OBDWMWVOVYJOMI-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Elektronenkonfiguration Vorhergesagt
Hs: 5f¹⁴ 6d⁶ 7s²[Rn] 5f¹⁴ 6d⁶ 7s²1s² 2s² 2p⁶ 3s² 3p⁶ 3d¹⁰ 4s² 4p⁶ 4d¹⁰ 5s² 5p⁶ 4f¹⁴ 5d¹⁰ 6s² 6p⁶ 5f¹⁴ 6d⁶ 7s²Atommodell
Isotope ändern die Neutronenzahl, Masse und Stabilität — nicht die Elektronenkonfiguration eines neutralen Atoms.
Schematisches Atommodell, nicht maßstabsgetreu.
Atomarer Fingerabdruck
Emissions- / Absorptionsspektrum
Isotopenverteilung
Keine stabilen Isotope.
| Massenzahl | Atommasse (u) | Natürliche Häufigkeit | Halbwertszeit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 273 Radioaktiv | 273,14168 ± 0,0004 | N/A | 1060 ms |
| 274 Radioaktiv | 274,1433 ± 0,00063 | N/A | 500 ms |
| 275 Radioaktiv | 275,14667 ± 0,00063 | N/A | 280 ms |
| 276 Radioaktiv | 276,14846 ± 0,00086 | N/A | 100 ms |
| 280 Radioaktiv | 280,159335 ± 0,000644 | N/A | 100 ms |
Phase / Zustand
Phasen-/Zustandsdaten nicht verfügbar
Atomspektren
10 von 97 angezeigt. Sortiert nach Ionenladung (aufsteigend).
Niveaudaten ?
| Ion | Ladung | Niveaus |
|---|---|---|
| Hs I | 0 | 2 |
| Hs II | +1 | 2 |
| Hs III | +2 | 2 |
| Hs IV | +3 | 2 |
| Hs V | +4 | 2 |
| Hs VI | +5 | 2 |
| Hs VII | +6 | 2 |
| Hs VIII | +7 | 2 |
| Hs IX | +8 | 2 |
| Hs X | +9 | 2 |
Phasen-/Zustandsdaten nicht verfügbar
Verbindungen
Isotope (5)
| Massenzahl | Atommasse (u) | Natürliche Häufigkeit | Halbwertszeit | Zerfallsart | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 273 Radioaktiv | 273,14168 ± 0,0004 | N/A | 1060 ms | α ≈100%SF ? | |
| 274 Radioaktiv | 274,1433 ± 0,00063 | N/A | 500 ms | α ?SF ? | |
| 275 Radioaktiv | 275,14667 ± 0,00063 | N/A | 280 ms | α =100% | |
| 276 Radioaktiv | 276,14846 ± 0,00086 | N/A | 100 ms | α ?SF ? | |
| 280 Radioaktiv | 280,159335 ± 0,000644 | N/A | 100 ms | α ?SF ? |
Erweiterte Eigenschaften
Kovalente Radien (Erweitert)
- Kovalenzradius (Pyykkö)
- 134 pm
- Kovalenzradius (Pyykkö, doppelt)
- 125 pm
- Kovalenzradius (Pyykkö, dreifach)
- 118 pm
Nummerierungsskalen
- Mendeleev
- 62
Polarisierbarkeit & Dispersion
- Dipolpolarisierbarkeit
- 36 a.u.
- Dipolpolarisierbarkeit (Uns.)
- 4 a.u.
Oxidationszustands-Kategorien
Erweiterte Referenzdaten
Isotopenzerfallsarten (33)
| Isotop | Modus | Intensität |
|---|---|---|
| 263 | A | 100% |
| 263 | SF | — |
| 264 | A | 70% |
| 264 | SF | 30% |
| 265 | A | 100% |
| 265 | SF | — |
| 266 | A | 76% |
| 266 | SF | 24% |
| 267 | A | 80% |
| 267 | SF | — |
Zusätzliche Daten
Estimated Crustal Abundance
The estimated element abundance in the earth's crust.
Not Applicable
Referenzen (1)
Estimated Oceanic Abundance
The estimated element abundance in the earth's oceans.
Not Applicable
Referenzen (1)
Referenzen
(8)
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The half-life and atomic mass data was provided by the Atomic Mass Data Center at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Element data are cited from the Atomic weights of the elements (an IUPAC Technical Report). The IUPAC periodic table of elements can be found at https://iupac.org/what-we-do/periodic-table-of-elements/. Additional information can be found within IUPAC publication doi:10.1515/pac-2015-0703 Copyright © 2020 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
The information are cited from Pure Appl. Chem. 2018; 90(12): 1833-2092, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0703.
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