ruthenium

1. 1.

   a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum

   SynonymsRuatomic number 44

   Broadermetallic element

Other forms of ruthenium

plural

rutheniums·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ruthenium

What does ruthenium mean?

ruthenium means "a rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum".

How many syllables are in ruthenium?

ruthenium has 4 syllables: ru-the-ni-um. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for ruthenium?

Close synonyms include Ru, atomic number 44. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ruthenium a common word?

ruthenium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.