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Definition of Rutherfordian
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of any of various persons and institutions named Rutherford. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: specifically physics) Of or pertaining to Ernest Rutherford, his planetary model of the atom (called the Rutherford model), or predictions made on the basis of this model. ¹
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