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ruthenium (n.)
metallic element, 1845, named by Russian chemist Karl Klauss, from a name proposed earlier (1828) in reference to a metal extracted from ores from the Ural Mountains of Russia (see
Ruthenian
). With metallic element ending
-ium
.