 Discovery Information
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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". |
