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Seaborgium

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Notes

Symbol

Sg

Atomic Number

106

Oxidation States

6

predicted

5

predicted

4

predicted

Electron Configuration

Orbital Occupancy

[Rn] 5f14 6d4 7s2

[Rn] represents the closed-shell electron configuration of radon

Orbital Filling Order

[Rn] 7s2 5f14 6d4

[Rn] represents the closed-shell electron configuration of radon

Term Symbol

5D0

see expanded configuration ...

Ionization Energies

I (1)

7.6 eV

Pyykkö Covalent Radius

single bond

143 pm

double bond

128 pm

triple bond

121 pm

Quantity

Seaborgium Atomic Structure

Notes

Ionization Energies

I (1)

7.6 eV

Electron Configuration

Orbital Occupancy

[Rn] 5f14 6d4 7s2

[Rn] represents the closed-shell electron configuration of radon

Orbital Filling Order

[Rn] 7s2 5f14 6d4

[Rn] represents the closed-shell electron configuration of radon

Term Symbol

5D0

see expanded configuration ...

Fluorescence Yields

ωK

0.973

ωL1

0.310

ωL2

0.562

ωL3

0.624

Coster-Kronig Yields

F13

0.51 

F23

0.174

Quantity

Seaborgium Atomic Interaction

Notes

Oxidation States

6

predicted

5

predicted

4

predicted

Quantity

Seaborgium Identification

Notes

CAS Number

54038-81-2

Quantity

Seaborgium Atomic Size

Notes

Pyykkö Covalent Radius

single bond

143 pm

double bond

128 pm

triple bond

121 pm

Quantity

Seaborgium History

Notes

Discovery

date of discovery

1974

discoverer

Albert Ghiorso

birth

July 15, 1915

discoverer

Joachim Michael Nitschke

discoverer

Jose R. Alonso

discoverer

Carol T. Alonso

discoverer

Matti Nurmia

discoverer

Glenn Theodore Seaborg

birth

April 19, 1912

death

February 25, 1999

discoverer

E. Kenneth Hulet

discoverer

Ronald W. Lougheed

location of discovery

Berkeley, California

Origin of Element Name

origin

Glen T. Seaborg

origin description

person—American chemist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Edwin Mattison McMillan

Origin of Element Symbol

symbol: Sg

origin

seaborgium

origin description

element name

Formerly Used or Proposed Element Names and Symbols

name

alvarezium

no matching symbol specified

name

rutherfordium

matching symbol

Rf

name

unnilhexium

matching symbol

Unh

name

eka-tungsten

no matching symbol specified

Quantity

Seaborgium Nomenclature

Notes

Element Names in Other Languages

French

seaborgium

German

Seaborgium

Italian

seaborgio

Spanish

seaborgio

Portuguese

seabórgio

Anions or Anionic Substituent Groups

seaborgide

Cations or Cationic Substituent Groups

seaborgium

Ligands

seaborgido

Heteroatomic Anion

seaborgate

'a' Term—Substitutive Nomenclature

seaborga

'y' Term—Chains and Rings Nomenclature

seaborgy

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Ghiorso, A., B. G. Harvey, G. R. Choppin, S. G. Thompson, and G. T. Seaborg. "New Element Mendelevium, Atomic Number 101." Physical Review, volume 98, number 5, 1955, pp. 1518–1519. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.98.1518

Ghiorso, A., J. M. Nitschke, J. R. Alonso, C. T. Alonso, M. Nurmia, G. T. Seaborg, E. K. Hulet, and R. W. Lougheed. "Element 106." Physical Review Letters, volume 33, number 25, 1974, pp. 1490–1493. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.33.1490

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Ghiorso, Albert, Matti Nurmia, Kari Eskola, James Harris, and Pirkko Eskola. "New Element Hahnium, Atomic Number 105." Physical Review Letters, volume 24, number 26, 1970, pp. 1498–1503. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.24.1498

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