Rutherfordium 104 Rf [261]   Switch element to... actinium aluminium aluminum americium antimony argon arsenic astatine barium berkelium beryllium bismuth bohrium boron bromine cadmium caesium calcium californium carbon cerium cesium chlorine chromium cobalt copper curium darmstadtium dubnium dysprosium einsteinium erbium europium fermium fluorine francium gadolinium gallium germanium gold hafnium hassium helium holmium hydrogen indium iodine iridium iron krypton lanthanum lawrencium lead lithium lutetium magnesium manganese meitnerium mendelevium mercury molybdenum neodymium neon neptunium nickel niobium nitrogen nobelium osmium oxygen palladium phosphorus platinum plutonium polonium potassium praseodymium promethium protactinium radium radon rhenium rhodium roentgenium rubidium ruthenium rutherfordium samarium scandium seaborgium selenium silicon silver sodium strontium sulfur sulphur tantalum technetium tellurium terbium thallium thorium thulium tin titanium tungsten ununbium ununhexium ununoctium ununpentium ununquadium ununtrium uranium vanadium xenon ytterbium yttrium zinc zirconium Go adjacent... Lu Hf Ta Lr Rf Db

The essentials

Description 

Here is a brief description of rutherfordium.

• Standard state: presumably a solid at 298 K
• Colour: unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in appearance
• Classification: Metallic
• Availability:

Rutherfordium is a synthetic element that is not present in the environment at all. It has no uses.

Isolation

Only very small amounts of of element 104, rutherfordium, have ever been made. The first samples were made through nuclear reactions involving fusion of an isotope of plutonium, ²⁴²Pu, with one of neon, ²²Ne.

²²Ne + ²⁴²Pu → ²⁶⁰₁₀₄Rf + 4 ¹n

Isolation of an observable quantity of rutherfordium has never been achieved.

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