Ruthenium (version 1) - Periodic Table of Videos

[GOODBADNAUGHTYWOLF]

i m betting most of these comment are made after watching Nurdrages videos XD

[rushianokun]

wise old man

[inesis]

Very reactive...not really! This metal cannot be dissolved in aqua regia like gold!

[TehSmeely]

@inesis so?  chemistry doesnt really work like that.it dissolves in bleach.

[inesis]

@TehSmeely in bleach with NaOH to yield Na2RuO4. It's a nice deep red solution :)

[mecrazy5]

@inesis

So?

[chemlabchemistry]

You say ruthenium is reactive but that is not true. It's really unreactive, insoluble in acids I think. You can dissolve it with bleach though.

[chemistrycoolguyscom]

what is matrix isolation?

[tehnoobucket]

I have to do research about Ruthenium for school project. Can ANYONE please give me information by simply replying to this message? You'd have helped alot. Ty!

[culwin]

Google

[tommmmmmmmx]

?? what is it used for??

[rajwraith]

does the guy have a book on elements? I wish he did...that'd be great

[giantsquidrule]

Ruthenia isn't in the Czech Republic. It's the Latin word for "Rus" - i.e. the area where Slavs live, in modern-day Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc. It was discovered by an Estonian working in Kazan (Estonia was part of the Russian Empire at the time and he named the element after his homeland).

P.S. I think that's my thesis eighth from the right... This is better than that time my hand was on the local news.

[rochelimit55555]

yea, it's ukraine

[Nick28th]

smart ass

[giantsquidrule]

Better than being a scruffy mule.

[tubalooney]

It was a province of, between the two world wars, Czechoslovkia with a ditinct cultural and historical identity near the Carpathian mountains but it has belonged to a number of countries in the past, Poland, Austria-Hungary, then annexed by the USSSR and now a part of the Ukraine. So the place did exist but the element was named by Karl Klaus after the Latin name for Rus, an area which comprises most modern Slavic countries in honour of his homeland. A bit complex.. but very interesting!

[ketamunke]

Can someone tell me what he means by a "sponge?" Is it just like a solid with air (or some kind of gas) bubbles in the middle?

[vmelkon]

It's a very fine powder. I think it can be called colloidal ruthenium as well.