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rutherfordium

[ ruhth-er-fawr-dee-uhm, -fohr-, ruhth- ]

noun

, Chemistry, Physics.
  1. a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. : Rf; : 104.


rutherfordium

/ ˌrʌðəˈfɔːdɪəm /

noun

  1. a transactinide element produced by bombarding californium-249 nuclei with carbon-12 nuclei. Symbol: Rf; atomic number.: 104; atomic wt: 261 Name in the former Soviet Unionkurchatovium
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rutherfordium

/ rŭth′ər-fôrdē-əm /

  1. A synthetic, radioactive element that is produced by bombarding plutonium with carbon or neon ions. Its most stable isotope is Rf 261 with a half-life of 62 seconds. Atomic number 104.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rutherfordium1

First recorded in 1965–70; officially assigned to element 104 in 1997; named after English physicist Ernest Rutherford; -ium ( def )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rutherfordium1

C20: named after Ernest Rutherford
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Example Sentences

Over the course of 30 years, his inventions contributed to the discovery of americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, rutherfordium, dubnium and seaborgium.

Many are named after great scientists: einsteinium, curium, fermium, mendelevium, bohrium and rutherfordium.

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Out go thorium, uranium and plutonium, along with a whole bestiary of synthetically-created elements - rutherfordium, seaborgium, ununpentium, einsteinium - which only ever exist momentarily as part of a lab experiment, before radioactively decomposing.

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