• Question: What is hassium

    Asked by anon-214714 to Helen, Farah, Dave, Cheryl, Bastian, Alun on 12 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Cheryl Williams

      Cheryl Williams answered on 12 Jun 2019:

      Hassium is a chemical element, you can find it in the periodic table

    • Photo: Dave Underhill

      Dave Underhill answered on 13 Jun 2019:

      taken from the zone homepage:

      Hassium was first made in the German state of Hesse, which is where the element’s name comes from. As an element, Hassium is created by bombarding lead with iron atoms, however, it does not occur naturally and has no known biological role.

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