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Darmstadtium

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Darmstadtium (Ds) is a transition metal with atomic number 110. It has no stable isotope and no characteristic isotopic composition on Earth, so it has no standard atomic weight; its longest-lived isotope has mass number 281. Its electron configuration is predicted to be [Rn] 5f14 6d8 7s2.

Darmstadtium key data

Symbol Ds
Atomic number 110
Mass number (longest-lived isotope) 281
Protons 110
Neutrons (longest-lived isotope, darmstadtium-281) 171
Electrons (neutral atom) 110
Category Transition metal
Period 7
Group 10
Block d-block
Noble gas notation [Rn] 5f14 6d8 7s2
Full electron configuration 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14 5s2 5p6 5d10 5f14 6s2 6p6 6d8 7s2
Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 16, 2

Mass number: IUPAC CIAAW radioactive elements, from NUBASE2020.

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Properties of darmstadtium

From PubChem, the US National Institutes of Health. Public domain. Most properties of this element are predicted, because only a few atoms have ever been made.

Predicted state at room temperature Solid
Predicted oxidation states +8, +6, +4, +2, 0
Discovered 1994

Darmstadtium electron configuration

The full electron configuration of darmstadtium is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14 5s2 5p6 5d10 5f14 6s2 6p6 6d8 7s2. With the noble-gas core collapsed it is [Rn] 5f14 6d8 7s2, and the outermost subshell is 7s2.

Bohr model of darmstadtium (Ds): a nucleus and seven shells holding 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 16 and 2 electrons from the inside out.
Bohr model of darmstadtium (Ds). Image © ScienceQuest, CC BY 4.0: free to reuse with credit to ScienceQuest and a link to this page, as the image licence explains.
Orbital box diagram of darmstadtium (Ds), [Rn] 5f14 6d8 7s2, with the radon core drawn as one bar: one box per orbital, filled by Hund’s rule, showing two unpaired electrons, in 6d.
Orbital diagram of darmstadtium (Ds). Image © ScienceQuest, CC BY 4.0: free to reuse with credit to ScienceQuest and a link to this page, as the image licence explains.

Why group and block follow from this is set out in how the periodic table maps electron configuration, and the electron configuration of every element is listed on one page.

Mass of one darmstadtium atom

A molar mass is grams per mole, so dividing by the Avogadro constant gives the mass of a single atom, or for an element with more than one natural isotope the average mass of its atoms, and the reciprocal gives how many atoms sit in a gram.

Mass of one atom

  1. one atom = 281 / (6.02214076 × 10²³)
  2. = 4.6661 × 10⁻²² g

Atoms in one gram

  1. atoms per gram = 6.02214076 × 10²³ / 281
  2. = 2.1431 × 10²¹ atoms

Darmstadtium has no standard atomic weight, because it has neither a stable isotope nor a characteristic isotopic composition on Earth. The figure used above is the mass number of darmstadtium-281, so treat these as nominal.

Darmstadtium on the periodic table

Darmstadtium is in period 7, group 10, in the d-block.

The other elements of group 10 are nickel, palladium and platinum.

The rest of period 7

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