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Also Known As Ru

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ruthenium powder
A chemical diagram illustrates the stepwise formation of organometallic ruthenium clusters, showing how one ruthenium atom is added at each stage to build increasingly complex structures, with arrows indicating the addition of Ru(CO)5 and loss of CO molecules.
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Karl Karlovich Klaus
Russian chemist

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