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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the style of any of various persons and institutions named Rutherford.
  • adjective specifically, physics Of or pertaining to Ernest Rutherford, his planetary model of the atom (called the Rutherford model), or predictions made on the basis of this model.

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From Rutherford +‎ -ian.

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