Seaborgium

Seaborgium: the essentials

Brief description: seaborgium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. It has no uses.

Isolation

Isolation: only very small amounts of of element 106, seaborgium, have ever been made. The first samples were made through a nuclear reaction involving fusion of an isotope of californium, ²⁴⁹Cf, with one of oxygen, ¹⁸O.

¹⁸O + ²⁴⁹Cf → ²⁶³₁₀₆Sg + 4 ¹n

Isolation of an observable quantity of seaborgium has never been achieved.

More recently, other isotopes have been made at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland using neon atoms to bombard californium isotopes.

²⁴⁸Cf + ²²Ne → ²⁶⁶Sg + 4¹n

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