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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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