The story
- Latin · derived fromHassia“Hesse”
- English todayhassium
From Latin Hassia (“Hesse”), the location of the institute where the element was first synthesized, + -ium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hassium
Today it means: An artificially-produced transuranic chemical element (symbol Hs) with atomic number 108. Full definition →
Latin Hassia