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n. a unit strength of a radioactive source equal to one million disintegrations per second British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819) [syn: Daniel Rutherford ] British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An obsolete unit of radioactivity (symbol: rd), defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nucleus decay per second.

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Rutherford is a New Jersey Transit railroad station served by the Bergen County Line . The station straddles the border between Rutherford and East Rutherford in Bergen County , New Jersey , United States. The station building and Hoboken Terminal -bound ...

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Population (2000): 1272 Housing Units (2000): 589 Land area (2000): 2.250998 sq. miles (5.830058 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.014995 sq. miles (0.038838 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.265993 sq. miles (5.868896 sq. km) FIPS code: 65760 Located within: Tennessee ...

Usage examples of rutherford.

Sir Rutherford Alcock, in his book upon Japan, states that the portraits of the most famous courtesans of Yedo are yearly hung up in the temple at Asakusa.

Rutherford, on his entry into the Greenroom, was a figure of high fantasy.

Concetta had arrived at Rutherford Hall, Lexia had naturally wished to see the children right away.

Rutherford Hall presently to have a word with Cedric, but I want to get hold of Doctor Quimper first.

Rutherford slipt, sliding into his clothes, his body running like pudding out through the legs of his expensive pants.

Rutherford McDowell THEY brought me ambrotypes Of the old pioneers to enlarge.

Rutherford, and then in New Orleans, and Mobile, and Oxford, Mississippi, and finally here in Carthage, working for Jim MacBride, but the commissions were growing smaller as the drunks got bigger and longer and the extra-marital affairs more numerous.

Faraday and Pasteur, for Arrhenius and Emil Fischer and Ernest Rutherford to work in.

Rutherford was strongly impressed with the belief that his father had, by a form of process peculiar to the law of Scotland, purchased these teinds from the titular, and, therefore, that the present prosecution was groundless.

He came with the personal recommendation of Cyrus Rutherford Ogle, who continued to phone Mary Catherine at work from time to time, just keeping in touch.

In 1911 Rutherford proposed this new structure for the atom, and pointed out that while the atom itself was small—a few billionths of an inch—the nucleus was tiny, only about a hundred thousandth as big in radius as the whole atom.

Rutherford, please," Drew said in a Charles-town phone booth down the street from the Bunker Hill Monument.

So the first real hero of the atomic age, if not the first personage on the scene, was Ernest Rutherford.

One of the finest minds atomic physics had ever known, a man to rank with Rutherford, Bohr, Heisenberg, Fermi, Meitner.

Assistant plant manager of the general foam division, Tenneco Chemicals, East Rutherford, N.