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ruthenium

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ruthenium has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

rutheniumn. [NL. So named from the Ruthenians, a Little Russian people, as coming from Russia, the metal having been found in the Ural mountains.].
     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. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ruthenium, n. Chem. a rare hard white metallic transition element, occurring naturally in platinum ores, and used as a chemical catalyst and in certain alloys.

Usage
Symb.: Ru.
Etymology
med.L Ruthenia Russia (from its discovery in ores from the Urals)
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