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By Danny

Mill Valley Middle School

8th grade

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.

Glenn T. Seaborg

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.

Properties

Atomic number

106

Atomic mass

263

number of neutrons

157

number of protons/electrons

106

Density

g/ml

Melting point

K

Boiling point

K

Heat of vaporization

kJ/mol

Heat of fusion

kJ/mol

Specific heat

J/gK

Crystals are unknown

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.

Miscellaneous Info

Glenn T. Seaborg also had to do with the creation of Plutonium which is another element.

The element name in other languages.

Latin

Seaborgium

Czech

Seaborgium

Croatian

Seaborgium-s

French

Seaborgium

German

Seaborgij

Italian

Seaborgium

Norwegian

Seaborgium

Spanish

Seaborgio

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/

Glossary

synthesized

radioactive

leukemia