Abstract
THE section on ruthenium in Gmelin's “Hand-buch” contains an account of the physical and chemical properties of this polyvalent element and of its compounds. The sources and preparation of the metal are being dealt with in conjunction with other members of the platinum group. No fewer than seven isotopes have been detected by the mass-spectroscope, and artificial radioactivity lias been effected “by bombardment with slow neutrons and deuterons. Ruthenium is very resistant to atmospheric corrosion and the attack of strong acids, but it can be oxidized in the presence of potassium chlorate to the tetroxide and by fused alkalis to ruthenates.
Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie
Achte völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage. Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. System-Nummer 63: Ruthenium. Pp. xxvi + 124. (Berlin: Verlag Chemie, G.m.b.H., 1938.) 6.50 gold marks.
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Chemistry. Nature 144, 897 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144897a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144897a0