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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt which corresponds to the hypothetical ruthenic acid, as potassium ruthenate (K2Ru-O4); also formerly used for what is now called a perruthenate, as potassium perruthenate (KRuO4). Sometimes written rutheniate.
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- noun inorganic chemistry The
oxyanion ofruthenium RuO42-; anysalt ormineral containing this anion, formally derived fromruthenic acid
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Chiral superconductivity may have been seen in strontium ruthenate Sr
Ars Technica Matthew Francis 2012
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