• Question: What is rutherfordium

    Asked by anon-205670 to Russell on 5 Mar 2019.
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      Russell Arnott answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Rutherfordium is an radioactive element that doesn’t occur naturally on Earth; it can only be made in a lab.
      It’s named after physicist Ernest Rutherford who discovered that each atom (the particles that everything is made from) has a dense centre called a nucleus.

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