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Seaborgium ist eine synthetisch chemisches Element mit dem Symbol Sg und Ordnungszahl 106. It is named after the American nuclear chemist Glenn T. Seaborg. As a synthetic element, it can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature. It is also radioaktiv; the most stable known isotope, 269Sg, has a Halbwertszeit of approximately 14 minutes.

Im Periodensystem of the elements, it is a d-block Transactinoid. Es ist ein Mitglied der 7. Stunde and belongs to the group 6 elements as the fourth member of the 6d series of transition metals. Chemistry experiments have confirmed that seaborgium behaves as the heavier Homolog to tungsten in group 6. The chemical properties of seaborgium are characterized only partly, but they compare well with the chemistry of the other group 6 elements.

In 1974, a few atoms of seaborgium were produced in laboratories in the Soviet Union and in the United States. The priority of the discovery and therefore the naming of the element was disputed between Soviet and American scientists, and it was not until 1997 that Internationale Union für reine und angewandte Chemie (IUPAC) established seaborgium as the official name for the element. It is one of only two elements named after a living person at the time of naming, the other being oganesson, element 118.