Ruthenium

Ruthenium (Ru)

Ru has a melting point of:  2,337° C

And a boiling point of: 4,152° C

Atomic number 44 44 Protons and 44 Electrons.

Ruthenium has 58 neutrons in its most stable form.

Ruthenium is in the eight group in the predict table and in the fifth period.

Ru is a metal and is pure.

The person that discovered Ru was Jedrzej Sniadecki in 1844.

The color of Ru is silver and black but it will turn different shades in the sun Ru has an atomic mass of 101.07

 Five Cool Facts

1. Ru can be found in nuclear substances.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">2. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Ru is used in data storage.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">3. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Ru can be found in platinum and in nuclear substances.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">4. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Occurrence <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Ruthenium is exceedingly rare, only the 74th most common metal on earth. Also this element is generally found in ores with other platinum group metals in the “Ural Mountains” and North and South America, but small-commercialised areas like Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and also in some parts of South Africa.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">5. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Mining <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Around 12 tonnes of Ru (Ruthenium) is mined each year with world reserves estimated around 5,000 tonnes. WOW. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The composition of mined platinum group metal “PGM” mixtures varies in a wide range depending on the geochemical formation. As an example, the PGMs mined in South Africa contain a average of around 11% (.Ru.) while the PGMs mined in the former “USSR contain only 2% based on research dating roughly around 1992. As some people may already know is that, Ruthenium is obtained commercially as a by-product from Nickel and Copper mining and processing as well as by the processing of platinum group metal ores.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">By William Brokloff