NOUN | rutherfordium | - | |
SYNO | atomic number 104 | element 104 | Rf | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Element 104 is now known as rutherfordium.
- In addition, given that many American books had already used rutherfordium and hahnium for 104 and 105, the ACS objected to those names being used for other elements.
- 9 second half-life and underwent alpha decay to rutherfordium-259.
- Harris was awarded an honorary doctorate from Huston-Tillotson College in 1973 for his co-discovery of rutherfordium and dubnium.
- The artificial elements, being radioactive, are never considered to be part of the refractory metals, although technetium has a melting point of 2430 K or 2157 °C and rutherfordium is predicted to have melting point of 2400 K or 2100 °C.
- It contains the four elements titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), and rutherfordium (Rf).
- In 1997 a committee of IUPAC recommended that element 104 be named rutherfordium.
- Very few properties of rutherfordium or its compounds have been measured; this is due to its extremely limited and expensive production and the fact that rutherfordium (and its parents) decays very quickly.
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