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The Atomic mass number of Ruthenium is 44. The Atomic weight of Ruthenium is 101.07. The density of Ruthenium is 12.2 g/cm3. In 1844 Ruthenium was discovered by a German scientist. |
 Five
interesting facts about Ruthenium. |
| Ruthenium can combine with platinum to make it stronger. |
| Ruthenium is one of the weird metals, it has 44 electrons. |
| Add 0.1 Ru to titanium makes it 100 more times reasisent to corrosion. |
| Ruthenium is never found alone in the wild, it is always with other metals. |
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Ruthenium does not tarnish at room tempatures. |
 This
is a picture of Ruthenium just after it was mined. |
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| As you can see the Atoms in Ruthenium make up a complex structure which is highly unstable. |
| That is why Ruthenium is highly unstable, in other words, explosive when combined with potassium chlorite. |
 Ruthenium
when it is mined looks just like silvery, gray, white sand. It isn't sand
though. It is a transitional metal of the periodic table. Ruthenium is a
part of the platinum group. Ruthenium is never found in the wild alone it is
always combined with another metal. Ruthenium has 7 isotopes. Ruthenium is a
hard and shiny metal. Ruthenium does not tarnish when exposed to air.
Ruthenium was found in Russia while a scientist was collecting a sample of
platinum. Ruthenium is so rare that one gram of it cost $30. |