• Question: What is the difference between any group 6 element and Darmstadtium?

    Asked by anon-224968 to Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 14 Nov 2019.
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      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      Molecular mass?

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 25 Nov 2019:

      Well Darmstadtium is in group 10 of the periodic table so my first answer would be “not a lot!” but like a group 6 element, it is still in the transition metal block, or “d” block as it’s also called. This means that it has electrons occupying the “d-orbital” – google it and look at the pretty patterns!

      Darmstadtium is in the same group as Nickel, Palladium and Platinum (my favourite metal!), but because it is a synthetic element made in a lab and highly radioactive, I wouldn’t have thought it has much in common with the naturally occurring metals in its group.

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