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Who: members of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, workers of the Lawrence Berkeley and Livermore Laboratories |
When: 1974 |
Where: Dubna, USSR / Berkeley California |
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Name Origin
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For Glenn Seaborg, part of the Dubna group that first synthesized this element. |
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Sources
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Seaborgium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. |
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Uses
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None. |
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Notes
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In August of 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced the official naming of this element as Seaborgium. |
Element 106 was previously known as Unnilhexium; from the latin for "one zero six". |