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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt which corresponds to the hypothetical perruthenic acid, as potassium perruthenate (KRuO4). Sometimes written perrutheniate. Such a salt was formerly called a ruthenate.
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- noun inorganic chemistry The
oxyanion ofruthenium RuO4- or anysalt containing this anion
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He has done significant work in the area of organic catalysis and was one of the inventors of tetrapropylammonium perruthenate (TPAP), a catalytic oxidant that is now used worldwide and cited extensively.
Professor Steven V. Ley Speaks at WuXi PharmaTech - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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