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hassium
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has·si·um (häs-m)
n. Symbol Hs
A radioactive synthetic element whose longest-lived isotopes have mass numbers of 264 and 265 with half-lives of 0.08 millisecond and 2 milliseconds. Atomic number 108.


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That isotope, in turn, decayed by emitting an alpha particle to form a new isotope of element 108, and so on.
Meanwhile Lazarev and his coworkers are bombarding uranium with sulfur nuclei to create what they hope will be new, longer-lived isotopes of element 108, hassium.
 
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