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Hs hassium
Atomic 108 ── synthetic_superheavy ── Tier 1
No commercial production

No commercial production.

Hassium exists only as a laboratory product. GSI identifies element 108 as first experimentally proven on 1984-03-14 at Darmstadt, and IUPAC's final 1997 transfermium naming decision accepted the discoverers' proposed name "hassium" with symbol Hs. There is therefore no commercial market form, reserve base, production tonnage, or price series to report.

The economically relevant reality is simply that there is none: hassium is synthesized one atom at a time in accelerator experiments, then inferred from decay chains. ENSDF/NuDat lists 270Hs as the longest-lived adopted isotope at 7.6 s, which is long enough for nuclear-physics and occasional atom-at-a-time chemistry experiments but still far too short-lived for trade. Current institutional superheavy programs at GSI and JINR continue to operate facilities capable of producing and studying nuclei in this region.

No production data
No reserves or end-use data
No price history
No isotope market data

Sources (5)

primary New Elements
GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung • 2013 • retrieved 2026-04-13
GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung • 2025 • retrieved 2026-04-13
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry • 1997 • retrieved 2026-04-13
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research • 2025 • retrieved 2026-04-13
National Nuclear Data Center / ENSDF / NuDat • 2019 • retrieved 2026-04-13