Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An artificially produced radioactive element with atomic number 110. Isotopes having mass numbers ranging from 267 to 281 are known, with the most stable isotope (Ds-281) having a half-life of about 10 seconds. cross-reference: Periodic Table.

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  • noun A transuranic chemical element (symbol Ds) with atomic number 110.

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  • noun a radioactive transuranic element

Etymologies

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[After Darmstadt.]

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Named after Darmstadt, where it was first synthesized.

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Examples

  • Elements 110, 111 and 112 have been named darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg) and copernicium (Cn).

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Richard Gray 2011

  • Roentgenium, after a modern physicist renamed roentgenium by the General Assembly, was originally discovered in 1994 when a team at GSI created three atoms of the element, about a month after their discovery of darmstadtium, on Dec. 8.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Elements 110, 111 and 112 have been named darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg) and copernicium (Cn).

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • It was created by crashing a heavy isotope of lead with nickel-62, which created four atoms of darmstadtium.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California saw the isotopes of rutherfordium, seaborgium, hassium, darmstadtium, and copernicium by watching the decay of the yet-to-be-named element 114, a synthetic element first produced about a decade ago.

    Wired Top Stories Marissa Cevallos 2010

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