 Discovery Information
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| Who: GSI (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) |
| When: 1994 |
| Where: Darmstadt, West Germany |
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| Name Origin
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| Element was officially named on August the 16th 2003 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) at a
meeting in Ottawa, Canada. The name honours the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (called GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, where the substance was first made.
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| "Darmstadtium" in different languages. |
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| Sources
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| A synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. Chemically, the element is in the same Group as nickel, palladium, and platinum (Group 10). Unlike these lighter atoms, element 110 decays after a small fraction of a thousandth of a second into lighter
elements by emitting a-particles which are the nuclei of helium atoms.
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| Uses
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| None. |
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| History
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| Ds was first generated on November 9, 1994 at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg, under the direction of professor Sigurd Hofmann. Only a few atoms of it were prepared by nuclear fusion, involving bombarding
a lead target with nickel.
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| Notes
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| Half-lives range from 180 microseconds for 269Ds to 1.1 minutes for 281Ds.
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| Previously known as Ununnillium (from the latin for "one one zero") and before that, Eka-Platinum. |
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