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{{Element | name=Rutherfordium | symbol=Rf | anumber=104 | amass=261 amu | state=Presumed to be a Solid | class=Transactinides | cstructure=Unknown | color=Unknown | date=1969 | discname=A. Ghiorso, Nurmia, Harris, K.A.Y. Eskola, and P.L. Eskola | origname=Named in honor of Lord Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist and chemist. | uses=Research purposes only. | obtained=Only a few thousand atoms have ever been obtained by bombarding <sup>249</sup>[[Californium|Cf]] with <sup>12</sup>[[Carbon|C]] and <sup>13</sup>[[Carbon|C]] ions. }}
{{Element | name=Rutherfordium | symbol=Rf | anumber=104 | amass=261 amu | state=Presumed to be a Solid | class=Transactinides | cstructure=Unknown | color=Unknown | date=1969 | discname=A. Ghiorso, Nurmia, Harris, K.A.Y. Eskola, and P.L. Eskola | origname=Named in honor of Lord Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist and chemist. | uses=Research purposes only. | obtained=Only a few thousand atoms have ever been obtained by bombarding <sup>249</sup>[[Californium|Cf]] with <sup>12</sup>[[Carbon|C]] and <sup>13</sup>[[Carbon|C]] ions. }}
'''Rutherfordium''' is a [[synthetic]] chemical [[element]] with the [[chemical symbol|symbol]] Rf and [[atomic number]] 104, named after New Zealand physicist [[Ernest Rutherford]]. It is not found in nature and can only be made in a laboratory. It is [[radioactive]]; the most stable known [[isotope]], <sup>267</sup>Rf, has a [[half-life]] of approximately 1.3 hours.<ref>[http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/104/rutherfordium] "Rutherfordium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table"</ref>
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