home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
The Epic Interactive Encyclopedia 1998
/
Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso
/
R
/
Rutherfordium
/
INFOTEXT
< prev
Wrap
Text File
|
1992-09-02
|
293b
|
8 lines
Artificially made element, symbol Rf, atomic
number 104, named after Ernest Rutherford,
but known in the USSR as kurchatovium (after
scientist Igor Kurchatov). It is radioactive,
with a very short half-life, only 70 seconds
for the most stable of the isotopes. It is
now renamed unnilquadium.