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has·sium (hasē əm)

noun

a radioactive chemical element with a very short half-life: a transactinide produced by bombarding lead with high-energy nuclear particles: symbol, Hs: at. no., 108

Etymology: ModL, after the L name for Hesse, where new elements were created in a nuclear physics laboratory + -ium

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