104. Rutherfordium - Elementymology & Elements Multidict

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Rutherfordium

Rutherfordium – Rutherfordium – Rutherfordium – Ruterfordio – ラザホージウム – Резерфордий, ²Курчатовий – 鑪

Multilingual dictionary

Indo-European

Rutherfordium Latin

— Germanic

Rutherfordium Afrikaans
Rutherfordium Danish
Rutherfordium German
Rutherfordium English
Rutherfordium Faroese
Rutherfordium Frisian (West)
Rutherfordín Icelandic
Rutherfordium Luxembourgish
Rutherfordium Dutch
Rutherfordium Norwegian
Rutherfordium Swedish

— Italic

Ruterfordio Aragonese
Raderfordiumu Aromanian
Rutherfordiu Asturian
Rutherfordi Catalan
Ruterfordio Spanish
Rutherfordium French
Rutherfordi Friulian
Rutherfordio Galician
Rutherfordio Italian
Rutherfòrdi Occitan
Rutherfórdio Portuguese
Rutherfordiu Romanian - Moldovan

— Slavic

Ръдърфордий [Rãdãrfordij] Bulgarian
Ruterfordijum, ²Rutherfordij Bosnian
Курчатовій [kurčatovij] Belarusian
Rutherfordium Czech
Rutherfordij Croatian
Rutherford Kashubian
Радерфордиум [Raderfordium] Macedonian
Rutherford Polish
Резерфордий, ²Курчатовий [Rezerfordij, ²Kurčatovij] Russian
Rutherfordium Slovak
Raderfordij Slovenian
Ратерфоријум [Raterforijum] Serbian
Резерфордій [rezerfordij] Ukrainian

— Baltic

Ruterfordis Lithuanian
Ruterfordijs Latvian
Roterfuordis Samogitian

— Celtic

Rutherfordiom Breton
Rutherffordiwm Welsh
Ruitéarfoirdiam Gaelic (Irish)
Rutarfoirdiam Gaelic (Scottish)
Rutherfordium Gaelic (Manx)
Rutherfordyum Cornish

— Other Indo-European

Ραδερφόρντιο [raderfordio] Greek
Ռեզերֆորդիում [ŗezerfordium] Armenian
Raderfordium, ²Rutherfordiumi Albanian

— Indo-Iranian/Iranian

Rutherfordiyûm Kurdish
Курчатовий [kurčatovij] Ossetian
Резерфордий [Rezerfordi'] Tajik

— Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan

রাদারফোর্ডিয়াম Bengali
رادرفوردیم [radrfwrdym] Persian
રધર્ફોર્ડિયમનો [radharphorḍiyamano] Gujarati
रुथरफोर्डियम [rutharphorḍiyama] Hindi

Finno-Ugric

Rutherfordium Estonian
Rutherfordium Finnish
Radzerfordium Hungarian
Курчатови [kurchatovi] Moksha
Rutherfordium Võro

Altaic

Rezerfordium Azerbaijani
Резерфорди [Rezerfordi] Chuvash
Курчатовий [kûrčatovij] Kazakh
Курчатовий [Kurčatovij] Kyrgyz
Резерфорд [rezerford] Mongolian
Rutherfordiyum Turkish
Rezerfordiy Uzbek

Other (Europe)

Rutherfordio Basque
რეზერფორდიუმი [rezerphordiumi] Georgian

Afro-Asiatic

رذرفورديوم [radharfūrdiyūm] Arabic
רותרפורדיום [rutherfordium] Hebrew
Rutherfordju Maltese

Sino-Tibetan

Lù (鑪) Hakka
ラザホージウム [razahōziumu] Japanese
러더포듐 [reodeopodyum] Korean
รูเทอร์ฟอร์เดียม [rūthoefodiam] Thai
Rutherfordi Vietnamese
鑪 [lu2 / lo4] Chinese

Malayo-Polynesian

Ruterfordyo Cebuano
Ruterfordium Malay

Other Asiatic

ருதெர்போர்டியம் [ruterpōrţiyam] Tamil

Africa

Rutherfordiamo Sesotho
Rutherfordi Swahili

Artificial

Ruterfordio Esperanto

New names

Ruterion Atomic Elements
Johnium Dorseyville

memory peg	Artificial radioactive element melting point -- °C; -- °F boiling point -- °C; -- °F density -- g/cc; -- pounds/cubic foot
1964 Г.Н.Флеров (G.N. Flerov) and co-workers, Dubna, Russia 1969 Albert Ghiorso and co-workers, Berkeley, Calif., USA
Berkeley group named after Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), ratified by IUPAC 1997 Dubna group after Igor Vasilevitch Kurchatov (1903-1960)

History & Etymology

First preparation by Russian and American teams:

1964 by Г.Н. Флеров (Georgy Nikolaevich Flerov), Юрий Цолакович Оганесян (Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian), Ю.В. Лобанов (Yu.V. Lobanov), V.I. Kuznetsov, V.A. Druin, V.P. Perelygin, K.A. Gavrilov, C.П. Третьякова (S.P. Tretiakova), and V.M. Plotko at the Объединенный Институт Ядерных Исследований (ОИЯИ) - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) at Дубна (Dubna), Russia, by bombardment of Plutonium with Neon ions and named Курчатовий (Kurchatovium) (Ku) after Igor Vasilevitch Kurchatov (1903-1960), head of the Soviet Nuclear Research.
1969 by Albert Ghiorso, M. Nurmia, J. Harris, K. Eskola and P. Eskola at the Berkeley Laboraty of the University of California by bombardment of Californium with Carbon ions and named Rutherfordium.

The systematic IUPAC name was Unnilquadium (Unq). In 1994 IUPAC proposed the name Dubnium because it was first discovered at Дубна (Dubna) (cf. Dubnium). The American Chemical Society proposed Rutherfordium, the name given by Ghiorso a.o. in 1969. The latter became also the current IUPAC name. Dubnium was then used for element 105. The name and symbol Rutherfordium (Rf) was ratified by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Council meeting in Geneva during August 1997 (see "Naming the transfermium elements" on the IUPAC Names page).

Variant names of elements 104-108
No. syst. IUPAC IUPAC 1997 proposals

104 Unq Unnilquadium Rf Rutherfordium Db Dubnium (1)
Ku Kurchatovium (3)

105 Unp Unnilpentium Db Dubnium Jo Joliotium (1)
Ha Hahnium (2)
Ns Nielsbohrium (3)

106 Unh Unnilhexium Sg Seaborgium Rf Rutherfordium (1)

107 Uns Unnilseptium Bh Bohrium (1) Ns Nielsbohrium (2, 4)

108 Uno Unniloctium Hs Hassium (4) Ha Hahnium (1)

(1) IUPAC 1994; (2) ACS 1994; (3) ОИЯИ (JINR); (4) GSI 1992
See "Naming the transfermium elements" on the IUPAC Names page

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1e Baron Rutherford of Nelson (Brightwater, New Zealand, 30 augustus 1871 - Cambridge, England, 19 October 1937). New Zealand chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He discovered that atoms have their positive charge concentrated in a very small nucleus, and thereby pioneered the Rutherford model, or planetary, model of the atom, through his discovery and interpretation of Rutherford scattering in his gold foil experiment. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. He is widely credited as splitting the atom in 1917 and leading the first experiment to "split the nucleus" in a controlled manner by two students under his direction, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton in 1932 (note).

Igor Kurchatov

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов 12 January 1903 – 7 February, 1960), Soviet/Russian nuclear physicist. He was the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project. He was one of the central figures in the Soviet nuclear program. He is best known for his role as a director of the nascent Soviet nuclear program. He led a team of Soviet scientists in developing and building a nuclear weapon program. Under his direction the Soviet Union successfully tested its first plutonium-based nuclear device, First Lightning in 1949. For this reason he is remembered as "The Father of the Soviet Atomic Bomb". (note).