seaborgium [Sg]

Introduction

Named after nuclear chemist Glenn T Seaborg. First created in 1974 by Albert Ghiorso & colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories & independently by members of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. The Berkeley work was confirmed in 1993 & they were credited with the discovery.

Occurrence

• does NOT occur naturally
• only a few atoms have ever been synthesized

Characteristics

• presumably solid of unknown color
• presumably radioactive

Uses

none

More general terms

• transactinide
• radioactive element