ruthenium

See also: Ruthenium and ruthénium

English

Chemical element
Ru
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Etymology

Ruthenia + -ium

Pronunciation

• enPR: ro͞o-thē′-nē-əm, IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈθiːniəm/

Noun

ruthenium (countable and uncountable, plural rutheniums)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Ru) with an atomic number of 44.
2. (countable) An atom of this element.

Derived terms

• ammonium ruthenium chloride
• ruthenate
• rutheniate
• ruthenic
• ruthenio-
• ruthenious
• ruthenite
• ruthenium dioxide
• ruthenium oxide
• ruthenium red
• ruthenium tetroxide
• ruthenium trichloride

 

Related terms

• Ruthene
• Ruthenian
• ruthenocene

 

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: rutenium (af)
• Albanian: ruten
• Arabic: رُوتِينْيُوم m (rūtīnyūm)
• Armenian: ռութենիում (hy) (ṙutʻenium)
• Asturian: ruteniu m
• Basque: rutenioa
• Belarusian: рутэ́ній m (ruténij)
• Breton: ruteniom
• Bulgarian: руте́ний m (ruténij)
• Catalan: ruteni (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 钌 (zh), 釕／钌 (zh) (liǎo)

• Cornish: ruthenyum
• Czech: ruthenium (cs) n
• Danish: ruthenium (da) n
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: ruthenium (nl) n
• Esperanto: rutenio (eo)
• Estonian: ruteenium (et)
• Faroese: rutenium n
• Finnish: rutenium (fi)
• French: ruthénium (fr) m
• Friulian: ruteni
• Galician: rutenio (gl) m
• Georgian: რუთენიუმი (ruteniumi)
• German: Ruthenium (de) n
• Greek: ρουθήνιο (el) n (routhínio)
• Hebrew: רותניום (rutényum)
• Hindi: नक्षरातु (nakṣarātu)
• Hungarian: ruténium (hu)
• Icelandic: rúten
• Interlingua: ruthenium
• Irish: ruitéiniam (ga)
• Italian: rutenio (it) m
• Japanese: ルテニウム (ja) (ruteniumu)
• Kashubian: ruten
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• Khmer: រុយតេញ៉ូម (ruyteeñoum)
• Korean: 루테늄 (ko) (rutenyum)
• Latvian: rutēnijs
• Lithuanian: rutenis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Ruthenium
• Macedonian: рутениум m (rutenium)
• Malay: rutenium
• Maltese: rutenju
• Manx: rutainium
• Mongolian: рутени (ruteni)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ruthenium n

  Nynorsk: ruthenium (nn) n

• Occitan: rutèni m
• Polish: ruten (pl) m
• Portuguese: ruténio (pt) m (Portugal), rutênio (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: ruteniu (ro) n
• Russian: руте́ний (ru) m (ruténij)
• Scottish Gaelic: ruitèiniam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рутениjум m рутениј m

  Roman: rutenijum m, rutenij (sh) m

• Slovak: ruténium (sk) n
• Slovene: ruténij (sl) m
• Spanish: rutenio (es) m
• Swedish: rutenium (sv) n
• Tagalog: rutenyo
• Tajik: рутений (ruteniy)
• Tamil: ருதெனியம் (ruteṉiyam)
• Thai: รูทีเนียม (ruu-tii-nîiam)
• Turkish: rutenyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: руте́ній m (ruténij)
• Uzbek: ruteniy (uz), рутений (uz) (ruteniy)
• Vietnamese: ruteni
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: rwtheniwm (cy)
• West Frisian: ruthenium

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Ruthenium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “ruthenium”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

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Czech

Noun

ruthenium n

1. ruthenium

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Danish

Alternative forms

• rutenium (obsolete)

Noun

ruthenium n

1. ruthenium

References

• “ruthenium” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Chemical element
Ru
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Pronunciation

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Noun

ruthenium n (uncountable)

1. ruthenium

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ruˈtʰe.ni.um/, [rʊˈt̪ʰɛniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ruˈte.ni.um/, [ruˈt̪ɛːnium]

Noun

ruthenium n (genitive rutheniī); second declension

1. ruthenium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ruthenium	ruthenia
Genitive	rutheniī	rutheniōrum
Dative	rutheniō	rutheniīs
Accusative	ruthenium	ruthenia
Ablative	rutheniō	rutheniīs
Vocative	ruthenium	ruthenia

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ryˈðeː˨ɲɔ˧m]

Noun

ruthenium n

1. (uncountable) ruthenium
2. A part of ruthenium

Inflection

Declension of ruthenium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	ruthenium	ruthenia	ruthenieke	rutheniekes
Genitive	rutheniums	ruthenia	rutheniekes	rutheniekes
Locative	ruthenieës	ruthenieëser	ruthenieëske	ruthenieëskes
Dative¹	rutheniumme	—	ruthenieke	—
Accusative¹	ruthenium	—	ruthenieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Ruthenia +‎ -ium

Noun

ruthenium n (definite singular rutheniumet, uncountable)

1. ruthenium, chemical element, symbol Ru

References

• “ruthenium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ruthenium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Ruthenia +‎ -ium

Noun

ruthenium n (definite singular rutheniumet, uncountable)

1. ruthenium, chemical element, symbol Ru

References

• “ruthenium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.