Seaborgium Facts
Seaborgium Facts
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| Seaborgium was another element whose discovery was claimed by both a Soviet team of researchers and a US team out of Berkley, California. |
| The Soviet team isolated the element by bombarding a lead target with chromium isotopes. |
| The Berkley researches synthesized seaborgium by bombarding an oxygen isotope target with ions of californium. |
| The resulting argument over discovery led to lengthy controversy among the scientific community due to the naming of seaborgium after Nobel Prize-winner Glenn Seaborg. |
| The controversy surrounding the credit for discovery and the resulting name led the IUPAC to establish the rule that no element can be named after a living person. |
| This rule was shot down due to its polarizing nature, especially considering einsteinium was named after Einstein during his lifetime. |
| An ongoing controversy over elements 104 through 108 was finally resolved by the IUPAC in 1997. |
| Seaborgium is thought to be the third element in the 6d series of transition metals, and the heaviest member of group six. |
| This puts seaborgium lower chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten. |
| Its position in the table means seaborgium is expected to be in a stable +6 state. |
| Much of what is theorized about seaborgium's chemical properties comes from its relationship to molybdenum and tungsten. |
| In 1974, a Soviet team attempted to synthesize seaborgium by a cold fusion reaction. |
| Their results included evidence of a .48-second spontaneous fission reaction due to the isotope Sg-259. |
| As recently as 2000, a team in France was able to isolate a ten-gram sample of seaborgium's isotope Sg-261. |
| Seaborgium has twelve known isotopes. |
| The most stable isotope of Sg has a half-life of about 2.1 minutes. |
| Other isotopes have half-lives of as short as three milliseconds. |
| The most recently created isotope of seaborgium was synthesized in 2010. |
| Due to its limited sample size and non-naturally occurring prevalence, there are no known uses for seaborgium. |
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