darm|stadt|ium

darm|stadt|ium «dahrm _STT ee uhm», noun.

a metallic, radioactive chemical element. It has a very short half-life and is produced by bombarding lead with nickel or zinc in high-energy atomic collisions.

╂[< New Latin darmstadtium < Darmstadt, Germany, site of the research center where it was first created in 1994]