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Seaborgium, ₁₀₆Sg

Seaborgium
Pronunciation	i/siːˈbɔːrɡiəm/ ​(see-BOR-gee-əm)
Mass number	269
Seaborgium in the periodic table
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Atomic number (Z)	106
Group	group 6
Period	period 7
Block	d
Electron configuration	[Rn] 5f14 6d4 7s2
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 12, 2
Physical properties
Phase at STP	solid (predicted)
Density (near r.t.)	35.0 g/cm3 (predicted)
Atomic properties
Oxidation states	0, (+3), (+4), (+5), +6 (parenthesized: prediction)
Ionization energies	1st: 757 kJ/mol 2nd: 1733 kJ/mol 3rd: 2484 kJ/mol (more) (all but first estimated)
Atomic radius	empirical: 132 pm (predicted)
Covalent radius	143 pm (estimated)
Other properties
Natural occurrence	synthetic
Crystal structure	​body-centered cubic (bcc) (predicted)
CAS Number	54038-81-2
History
Naming	after Glenn T. Seaborg
Discovery	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1974)
Main isotopes of seaborgium
Iso­tope Abun­dance Half-life (t1/2) Decay mode Pro­duct 265Sg syn 8.9 s α 261Rf 265mSg syn 16.2 s α 261mRf 267Sg syn 1.4 min 17% α 263Rf 83% SF 269Sg syn 14 min α 265Rf 271Sg syn 1.6 min 67% α 267Rf 33% SF

Seaborgium is a chemical element. In the past, it has been named eka-tungsten but is now named seaborgium. It has the symbol Sg. It has the atomic number 106. Seaborgium is a radioactive element that does not exist in nature. It has to be made. The most stable isotope is ²⁷¹Sg. Seaborgium-271 has a half-life of 2.4 minutes.

What Seaborgium looks like is not known because not enough has been made to see it with human eyesight, but since it is in the same period as Tungsten in the periodic table, it's appearance and may be similar to such.

Glenn Seaborg

The element is named in honor of Glenn Seaborg.

Seaborgium is a transuranium element. This means that it is "beyond" (trans) the element Uranium in the sequence of elements.

Mendeleev predicted that Seaborgium would exist. He called the element eka-tungsten because of its location was near Tungsten in the Periodic Table. The chemistry of seaborgium is like the chemistry of tungsten.

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  Element 106 was named after Glenn T. Seaborg, a pioneer in the discovery of synthetic elements, with the name seaborgium (Sg).

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  An aged Seaborg pointing to the element named after him on the periodic table

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