"Ruthenium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A hard, brittle, grayish-white rare earth metal with an atomic symbol Ru, atomic number 44, and atomic weight 101.07. It is used as a catalyst and hardener for PLATINUM and PALLADIUM.
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D012428
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.268.556.805 D01.268.956.812 D01.552.544.805
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