1 Facts
1.1 Interesting Facts
- Thorium metal is used as an alternate option over Uranium for nuclear fuel.
- Thorium metals appearance (silvery white, soft) is somewhat similar to Lead metal.
- Seaborgium most stable isotope is Sg and it has 2.1 min of half- life.
- And other isotopes of Seaborgium have half-lives as short as 3 ms.
1.2 Sources
Found in Minerals, Mining
Synthetically Produced
1.3 History
1.3.1 Who Discovered
Jöns Jakob Berzelius
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1.3.2 Discovery
1.4 Abundance
1.4.1 Abundance In Universe
1.4.3 Abundance In Sun
~0.0004 %~-9999 %
1E-08
0.1
1.5.2 Abundance In Meteorites
1.5.4 Abundance In Earth's Crust
1.6.1 Abundance In Oceans
1.6.2 Abundance In Humans