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darmstadtium
[ dahrm-stat-ee-uhm ]
noun
Chemistry, Physics.
- a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. : Ds; : 110.
darmstadtium
/ ä′sä′ŧ-ə /
- A synthetic radioactive element, first produced by bombarding lead atoms with nickel atoms. It has a mass number of 281, and its most stable isotope has a half-life of over one minute. Atomic number 110.
- See Periodic Table
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of darmstadtium1
First recorded in 2000–05; named after Darmstadt, the city in Germany where it was first created.
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Naturally there are berkelium, dubnium and darmstadtium, as well as livermorium - named after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that, among other things, ensures that the US nuclear stockpile does not decay too quickly.
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