Seaborgium is a synthetic element with the chemical symbol Sg and atomic number 106. It was first discovered in 1974 by a team of scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Seaborgium is classified as a transition metal and is part of the actinide series in the periodic table. Due to its instability, it has no significant commercial applications and is primarily used for research purposes. Seaborgium is highly radioactive, with its most stable isotope, Sg-271, having a half-life of about 2.5 minutes. It is produced by bombarding californium with oxygen ions in a particle accelerator. Because of its short half-life, studying Seaborgium is challenging, and much of its chemistry remains unknown.