{"id":2795,"date":"2026-08-12T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:13:14","slug":"ruthenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/ruthenium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Ruthenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruthenium is a hard, silvery transition metal in the platinum group with useful catalytic and electronic properties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Ruthenium<\/strong> | It resists corrosion, forms stable oxidation states and is used in thin films and contacts for electronics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Ruthenium<\/strong> | Recovered as a byproduct of platinum mining, ruthenium is used in catalysts, electrical contacts and specialty alloys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Ruthenium<\/strong> | Stable isotope Ru 102 and others exist; ruthenium compounds are handled with standard industrial precautions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard transition metal used in electronics, catalysts and alloys<\/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-2795","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\/2795","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=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}