| ruth | 1. Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. "They weep for ruth." "Have ruth of the poor." "To stir up gentle ruth, Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth." (Spenser) 2. That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful. "It had been hard this ruth for to see." (Chaucer) "With wretched miseries and woeful ruth." (Spenser) Origin: From Rue,: cf. Icel. Hryggth, hrygth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| ruthenic | <chemistry> Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ruthenious | <chemistry> Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ruthenium | <chemistry, element> A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum. Atomic weight: 103.5 Abbreviation: Ru Origin: NL. So named from the Ruthenians, a Little Russian people, as coming from Russia, the metal having been found in the Ural mountains. (30 Mar 1998) |
| ruthenium compounds | Inorganic compounds that contain ruthenium as an integral part of the molecule. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ruthenium radioisotopes | Unstable isotopes of ruthenium that decay or disintegrate emitting radiation. Ru atoms with atomic weights 93-95, 97, 103, and 105-108 are radioactive ruthenium isotopes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ruthenium red | <chemical> A stain used in electron microscopy for acid mucopolysaccharides on the outer surfaces of cells. (17 Dec 1997) |
| rutherford | An obsolete term for a unit of radioactivity, representing that quantity of radioactive material in which a million disintegrations are taking place per second; 37 rutherford equal 1 mCi. See: Becquerel. Origin: Ernest Rutherford, British physicist and Nobel laureate, 1871-1937 (05 Mar 2000) |