Ruthenium Ru · 44
solid metal · period 5, group 8 · d-block
Anatomy
Transliteration. The phonetic half approximates the international name. Ruthenium (from Russ. Ruténij, transliterated as l- instead of R-)
History of the character
Every form found in the sources, from the first missionary chemistry books of the 1850s to the current standards. Hover a dot for the source. Simplified 钌, traditional 釕.
- 1905 釕 liǎo 化學新教科書 Huàxué Xīn Jiàokēshū, Dù Yàquán (杜亞泉), Commercial Press
Homophones
No other element shares this syllable.
Elsewhere
Japanese ルテニウム Korean 루테늄 Vietnamese rutheni
Western name from Latin Ruthenia, “Ruthenia", Kievan Rus'{{Cite book”. Compare all
Unicode
U+948C in CJK Unified Ideographs