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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 of ruthenium RuO42-; any salt or mineral containing this anion, formally derived from ruthenic acid

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  • Chiral superconductivity may have been seen in strontium ruthenate Sr

    Ars Technica Matthew Francis 2012

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