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Seaborgium

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Seaborgium (Sg) is a transition metal with atomic number 106. It has no stable isotope and no characteristic isotopic composition on Earth, so it has no standard atomic weight. CIAAW lists seaborgium-269 and seaborgium-271 as its longest-lived isotopes, and the mass number used here is 269. Its electron configuration is predicted to be [Rn] 5f14 6d4 7s2.

Seaborgium key data

Symbol Sg
Atomic number 106
Mass number (one of its longest-lived isotopes) 269
Protons 106
Neutrons (seaborgium-269) 163
Electrons (neutral atom) 106
Category Transition metal
Period 7
Group 6
Block d-block
Noble gas notation [Rn] 5f14 6d4 7s2
Full electron configuration 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14 5s2 5p6 5d10 5f14 6s2 6p6 6d4 7s2
Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 12, 2

Mass number: IUPAC CIAAW radioactive elements, from NUBASE2020.

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Properties of seaborgium

From PubChem, the US National Institutes of Health. Public domain. Most properties of this element are predicted, because only a few atoms have ever been made.

Predicted state at room temperature Solid
Predicted oxidation states +6, +5, +4, +3, 0
Discovered 1974

Seaborgium electron configuration

The full electron configuration of seaborgium is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p6 4d10 4f14 5s2 5p6 5d10 5f14 6s2 6p6 6d4 7s2. With the noble-gas core collapsed it is [Rn] 5f14 6d4 7s2, and the outermost subshell is 7s2.

Bohr model of seaborgium (Sg): a nucleus and seven shells holding 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 12 and 2 electrons from the inside out.
Bohr model of seaborgium (Sg). Image © ScienceQuest, CC BY 4.0: free to reuse with credit to ScienceQuest and a link to this page, as the image licence explains.
Orbital box diagram of seaborgium (Sg), [Rn] 5f14 6d4 7s2, with the radon core drawn as one bar: one box per orbital, filled by Hund’s rule, showing four unpaired electrons, in 6d.
Orbital diagram of seaborgium (Sg). Image © ScienceQuest, CC BY 4.0: free to reuse with credit to ScienceQuest and a link to this page, as the image licence explains.

Why group and block follow from this is set out in how the periodic table maps electron configuration, and the electron configuration of every element is listed on one page.

Mass of one seaborgium atom

A molar mass is grams per mole, so dividing by the Avogadro constant gives the mass of a single atom, or for an element with more than one natural isotope the average mass of its atoms, and the reciprocal gives how many atoms sit in a gram.

Mass of one atom

  1. one atom = 269 / (6.02214076 × 10²³)
  2. = 4.4669 × 10⁻²² g

Atoms in one gram

  1. atoms per gram = 6.02214076 × 10²³ / 269
  2. = 2.2387 × 10²¹ atoms

Seaborgium has no standard atomic weight, because it has neither a stable isotope nor a characteristic isotopic composition on Earth. The figure used above is the mass number of seaborgium-269, so treat these as nominal.

Seaborgium on the periodic table

Seaborgium is in period 7, group 6, in the d-block.

The other elements of group 6 are chromium, molybdenum and tungsten.

The rest of period 7

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