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/

• Audio (Southern England)

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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
• Ruthenic
• ruthenocene

 

Translations

chemical element

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

  Mandarin: 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 (he) (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
• Khmer: រុយតេញ៉ូម (ruyteeñoum)
• Korean: 루테늄 (ko) (rutenyum)
• Latvian: rutēnijs m
• Lithuanian: rutenis (lt) m
• 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.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrutɛːnɪjum]

Noun

ruthenium n

1. ruthenium

Declension

Declension of ruthenium (semisoft neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	ruthenium	ruthenia
genitive	ruthenia	ruthenií
dative	rutheniu	rutheniím
accusative	ruthenium	ruthenia
vocative	ruthenium	ruthenia
locative	rutheniu	rutheniích
instrumental	rutheniem	ruthenii

Danish

Alternative forms

• rutenium (obsolete)

Noun

ruthenium n

1. ruthenium

References

• “ruthenium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

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Ru
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Noun

ruthenium n (uncountable)

1. ruthenium

Latin

Chemical element
Ru
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Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ryˈðeː˨ɲɔ˧m]

Noun

ruthenium n

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

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).

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.