Seaborgium

Seaborgium is a chemical element. In the past, it has been named eka-tungsten but is now named seaborgium. It has the symbol Sg and it has the atomic number 106.  Seaborgium is a radioactive element that does not exist in nature. It has to be made. The most stable isotope is 271Sg. Seaborgium-271 has a half-life of 2.4 minutes. 

What Seaborgium looks like is not known because not enough has been made to see it with human eyesight, but since it is in the same period as tungsten in the periodic table, its appearance and may be similar to it.
The element is named in honor of Glenn Seaborg.

Seaborgium is a transuranium element. This means that it is "beyond" (trans) the element Uranium in the sequence of elements.

Mendeleev predicted that Seaborgium would exist. He called the element eka-tungsten because of its location was near Tungsten in the Periodic Table. The chemistry of seaborgium is like the chemistry of tungsten.

 Uses 
Seaborgium has no uses at all because of how fast it destroys itself. 

 Chemistry 
Seaborgium hexacarbonyl  was made using the same method as tungsten hexacarbonyl and molybdenum hexacarbonyl. Its only known and studied as a gas.

 Sources 

 Other websites 

 WebElements.com - Seaborgium

Category:Transition metals
Category:Synthetic elements