By Danny
Mill Valley Middle
School
8th grade
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Name
Origin
The name Seaborgium came from a
Russian scientist called Glenn T. Seaborg discovered many of
the transuranium elements. The Discoverer of the Seaborgium
element was by Albert Ghiorso who were part or the DUBNA
group that first synthesized the element Seaborgium. This
element used to refer as unnilhexium and
Rutherford.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
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History
In June 1974, members of the joint
institute for Nuclear Research reported the discovery of
Element 106. They made the Seaborgium in Berkley, California
where these scientists smashed Californium-249 and
oxygen-18.
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Properties
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Atomic number
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106
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Atomic mass
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263
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number of
neutrons
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157
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number of
protons/electrons
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106
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Density
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g/ml
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Melting point
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K
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Boiling point
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K
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Heat of
vaporization
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kJ/mol
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Heat of fusion
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kJ/mol
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Specific heat
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J/gK
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Crystals are unknown
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Health
Issues
Seaborgium can cause serious damage
or danger because this element is radioactive. This can give
you the worst sickness even cancer because anything that is
radioactive can kill a powerful thing. This can even give
you leukemia which destroys and messes up your DNA, which is
really important to stay away from it.
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Miscellaneous
Info
Glenn T. Seaborg also had to do
with the creation of Plutonium which is another
element.
The element name in other
languages.
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Latin
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Seaborgium
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Czech
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Seaborgium
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Croatian
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Seaborgium-s
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French
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Seaborgium
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German
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Seaborgij
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Italian
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Seaborgium
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Norwegian
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Seaborgium
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Spanish
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Seaborgio
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Bibliography
Holt, Rinehart and Winston Physical
Science Holt Science Technology, Austin, Texas, 2001,pg.
328
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/elements/seaborgium/key.html
http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/sg.html
http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/106.html
http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/sg.html
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/
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Glossary
synthesized
radioactive
leukemia
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