[
US
/ˈɹəθɝfɝd/
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NOUN
- a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second
How To Use rutherford In A Sentence
- Rutherford was persuaded to abandon the horsebox at the Forth Road Bridge and a taxi was dispatched to bring him back to the track. Tattenham Corner
- Due to its extremely short half-life (about 0.1milliseconds), there's no reason for considering the effects of rutherfordium in the environment.
- The spectacle featured 39 miniature models who paraded a catwalk inside the company's Fifth Avenue flagship, wearing logo-printed capes, tiered peasant skirts and skinny pants, all chaperoned by Kelly Rutherford of "Gossip Girl. Branding the Baby
- Later, Rutherford also discovered the atomic nucleus and the proton.
- By 1902 Rutherford and his colleague Frederick Soddy were proposing that a different chemical element is formed whenever a radioactive element decays, a process known as transmutation.
- ‘Rutherford never notices or acknowledges anyone around him,’ Marc pointed out.
- Rutherford was essentially cuddly; Lansbury is far sharper with the dinner guests, and decidedly angular in motion, and delivery. Archive 2009-07-01
- Between the homestead and the mill, Rutherford constructed huts for the workers, a cookhouse and a dining room which doubled as a hall, complete with library and piano.
- The scientist Ernest Rutherford was the first person to split the atom.
- It is a comely thing even for a saint to be well-clothed about with humility, and the deepest valley is safer and seemlier walking for a lame man than the mountain-top; and so on, till Rutherford admitted that Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents