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rutherford
[ruth´er-ford]a unit of radioactive disintegration, representing one million disintegrations per second.
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(rŭth'ĕr-fŏrd),Obsolete term for a unit of radioactivity, representing that quantity of radioactive material in which a million disintegrations are taking place per second; 37 rutherford = 1 mCi. See: Becquerel.
[Ernest Rutherford, British physicist and Nobel laureate, 1871-1937]
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Rutherford,
Ernest, English physicist and Nobel laureate, 1871-1937.rutherford - obsolete term for a unit of radioactivity.
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