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Article: Element 106 takes the name seaborgium. (to honor Glenn T. Seaborg, who contributed to the discovery of the transuranium element) (Brief Article)
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- March 19, 1994
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Of the elements with large atomic numbers, uranium remains the highest to occur naturally. Those with higher atomic numbers merit the title "transuranium" and are created by scientists using particle accelerators.
Soon, the transuranium element 106 will officially bear the name of the chemist who paved the way for its discovery, scientists announced at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego this week.
Element 106 will be called seaborgium, denoted Sg, in honor of Glenn T. Seaborg, who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize with Edwin M. McMillan for the discovery of plutonium and nine other transuranium elements. This marks the first time an ...