Well attestedNamed from the place
darmstadtium
noun · first attested 2003
A city of about 160,000 people in Hesse has its name stamped permanently on the periodic table.
Synthetic radioactive chemical element 110, symbol Ds.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 2003
- Part of speech
- noun
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Darmstadt
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darmstadtium
The team led by S. Hofmann at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt made the first atoms in November 1994 by fusing lead-208 with nickel-62. The whole discovery rested on a handful of atoms that survived for fractions of a second. IUPAC approved the name darmstadtium in 2003, nearly a decade after the experiment.
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