Word origin: Darmstadtium is named for the city of Darmstadt, Germany, where it was discovered. The name was confirmed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 2003. Discovery ...

At the 42nd General Assembly in Ottawa, Canada, the IUPAC Council officially approved the name for element of atomic number 110, to be known as darmstadtium, with symbol Ds.

The first isotope of darmstadtium to be synthesized was 269 Ds, in November 1994, through a cold fusion reaction between 62 Ni and 208 Pb (ref. 1).The concept of cold fusion, where a nucleus is ...

This article was updated Friday 11/4 6:00pm. The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier today (Nov. 4), as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly of the ...

Darmstadtium was first synthesized by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenber in 1994 at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory in Darmstadt. The team produced four atoms of darmstadtium while bombarding ...

Only a few atoms of element number 110 have ever been made. And these too, like expected, are used only in scientific study. But then, we do need a name right?

Island hopper The TASCA facility at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research. (Courtesy: G Otto/GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) A new isotope of darmstadtium and a new excited ...

At the 42 nd General Assembly of The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the 110 th element was officially named Darmstadtium, and given the chemical symbol Ds.. Darmstadtium’s ...

Darmstadtium mighty number 110 Darmstadtium, the new element 110, which took the temporary name ununnilium, was first synthesized on Nov. 9, 1994, at the GSI facility near the city of Darmstadt.

At the 42nd General Assembly in Ottawa, Canada, the IUPAC Council officially approved the name for element of atomic number 110, to be known as darmstadtium, with symbol Ds.

Darmstadtium, the new element 110, which took the temporary name ununnilium, was first synthesized on Nov. 9, 1994, at the GSI facility near the city of Darmstadt.