| ruthenium |
a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum
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| rutherford |
a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819) British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
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| Rutherford atom |
first modern concept of atomic structure; all of the positive charge and most of the mass of the atom are contained in a compact nucleus; a number of electrons (equal to the atomic number) occupy the rest of the volume of the atom and neutralize the positive charge
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| rutherfordium |
a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized
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| rutherford |
(1871-1937) NZ scientist. Split the atom in 1918. Although a physicist he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908. When asked how he came into physics, he replied "When I was a little boy in my native New Zealand I was charged with the tending of sheep and one day when things were quiet I picked up a stick and put it into a pond of water, and it was bent - and when I pulled it out it was straight - and when I put it into the water again it was bent again! ...
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