{"id":2737,"date":"2026-10-01T01:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:41:28","slug":"rutherfordium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/rutherfordium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Rutherfordium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rutherfordium is a synthetic transactinide created in nuclear reactions to probe the chemistry and stability of superheavy nuclei.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Rutherfordium<\/strong> | Chemical behavior is inferred from periodic trends and limited experiments suggesting a +4 oxidation state analogous to lighter group 4 elements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Rutherfordium<\/strong> | Produced only in accelerator laboratories for fundamental research on nuclear stability, relativistic effects and chemical bonding in superheavy elements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Rutherfordium<\/strong> | Isotopes are highly radioactive and short lived; experiments require remote handling, heavy shielding and strict radiological protocols.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic transactinide produced for studies of superheavy element chemistry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5916,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/5916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}