Seaborgium

Atomic number

106

Atomic mass (u)

269.128

Category

Transition metal

Standard state

Solid

Melting point

Not reported

Boiling point

Not reported

Density (g/cm³)

Not reported in this source

Electronegativity (Pauling)

Not reported in this source

Electron configuration

[Rn]7s2 5f14 6d4

Oxidation states

6, 5, 4, 3, 0

Atomic radius (pm)

Not reported in this source

First ionization energy (eV)

Not reported in this source

Discovery & recognition

Discovery year / period (PubChem)

1974

Discovery credited to (RSC)

Albert Ghiorso and colleagues

Date or period recorded by RSC

1974

Discovery place

Berkeley, California, United States; competing work at Dubna, Russia

An ancient date does not identify a first human discovery. Different references may date observation, isolation and formal recognition differently.

Natural occurrence & production

This transuranium element is primarily produced through nuclear reactions in reactors or particle accelerators. Some transuranium elements also occur naturally in extremely small traces; that is different from a mineable deposit.

“Seaborgium is a transuranium element. It is created by bombarding californium-249 with oxygen-18 nuclei.”

Royal Society of Chemistry · occurrence excerpt ↗

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Reference values are not product specifications. Blank values have not been estimated. For superheavy elements, some properties and family assignments are theoretical or incompletely measured.