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What the name
means: Seaborgium was named after
the American nuclear scientist and Nobel
Laureate, Glenn Theodore Seaborg.
The International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC) had given the new element
the name Unnilhexium, with the symbol
Unh. In 1997 the IUPAC accepted the name
seaborgium (even though this name had been
rejected in 1994 because the committee
voted against naming an element after a
living person).
Who made
seaborgium?: Albert Ghiorso, J.Michael Nitschke
and their co-workers at the Berkeley
Laboratory of the University of California,
USA in 1974.
About seaborgium:
Seaborgium was made by bombarding
californium atoms with oxygen nuclei at the
Berkeley Laboratory. Only a few atoms of
seaborgium have ever been made. Seaborgium
atoms have a half life of 2,4 minutes. |