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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An artificially produced radioactive element with atomic number 106 whose most long-lived isotopes have mass numbers 259, 261, 263, 265, and 266 with half-lives of 0.9, 0.23, 0.8, 16, and 20 seconds, respectively. Also called unnilhexium. See Table at element.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A transuranic chemical element (symbol Sg) with atomic number 106

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a transuranic element

Etymologies

  1. Named for Glenn T. Seaborg. (Wiktionary)
  2. After Glenn Theodore Seaborg. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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

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

    Newsweek: All In A Name

  • “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

  • “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.”

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