it was the Russians and Americans fighting over whether to call an element Kurchatovium or Rutherfordium. And there were fewer light sabers. Finally, in 1997, IUPAC stepped in, and Rutherfordium won.

reaching in an unbroken chain of decays from element 114 down to rutherfordium. The discovery is a major step toward understanding how to explore the long-sought Island of Stability, which is ...

The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they’d emphatically prefer not to exist. Their nuclei, bursting with protons and ...

which marks the position of the island's shoreline in nuclei of rutherfordium (Rf, element 104). To allow experimental detection, the minimum lifetime of superheavy nuclei is on the order of a ...

The handy visual reference guide organizes known chemical elements in rows and columns, arranged by their atomic number. One never knows when one will need the properties of Rutherfordium in a hurry.

Mitch André Garcia considers the disputed discovery of element 104 and takes a look at how the chemistry of this synthetic element is developing. Rutherfordium, the 104th element on the periodic ...

Physicists created elements 95 through 103 between 1940 and 1961. 4) Nos. 104–106 Rutherfordium–Seaborgium Between 1966 and 1974, Soviet and American researchers fought over credit for ...

“I felt that in the great panoply of names that had already been picked for the heavy element region, the name ‘seaborgium’ would be of equal worth to curium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, ...