Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An artificially produced radioactive element with atomic number 106 that has only been produced in trace amounts. The isotope with mass number 266 has the longest confirmed half-life (21 seconds), although heavier isotopes with longer half-lives have been reported. cross-reference: Periodic Table.

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  • noun A transuranic chemical element (symbol Sg) with atomic number 106

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  • noun a transuranic element

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Glenn Theodore Seaborg.]

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Named for Glenn T. Seaborg.

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Examples

  • Shortly after the official 1997 recognition of the name seaborgium for element 106, Jeffrey Winters, writing in the January 1998 issue of Discover Magazine, made the following observation:

    MAKE Magazine Sean Michael Ragan 2010

  • Shortly after the official 1997 recognition of the name seaborgium for element 106, Jeffrey Winters, writing in the January 1998 issue of Discover Magazine, made the following observation:

    Daily DIY Sean Michael Ragan 2010

  • Shortly after the official 1997 recognition of the name seaborgium for element 106, Jeffrey Winters, writing in the January 1998 issue of Discover Magazine, made the following observation:

    Daily DIY Sean Michael Ragan 2010

  • HEN BERKELEY CHEMISTS discovered element 106 and named it seaborgium for their colleague Glenn Seaborg, the nuclear physicist elated.

    All In A Name 2008

  • The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has produced a dozen superheavy elements called transuranics and bear such names as berkelium, californium, lawrencium and seaborgium.

    SFGate: Top News Stories David Perlman 2010

  • Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California saw the isotopes of rutherfordium, seaborgium, hassium, darmstadtium, and copernicium by watching the decay of the yet-to-be-named element 114, a synthetic element first produced about a decade ago.

    Wired Top Stories Marissa Cevallos 2010

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