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) withatomic number 106
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- noun a transuranic element
Etymologies
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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
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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
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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
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HEN BERKELEY CHEMISTS discovered element 106 and named it seaborgium for their colleague Glenn Seaborg, the nuclear physicist elated.
All In A Name 2008
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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
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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
mossygams commented on the word seaborgium
I had a goldfish named this once...
December 5, 2006