Ruthenium rips apart everything it happens to encounter Considering this 2010 comment on Ruthenium attribute (*1), from Prof. Thomas Kodadek, Post Doc, Professor and Vice Chairman of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute campus in Jupiter,:
"When the ruthenium absorbs visible light, it has to dump that energy to return to a normal state,” said Kodadek. “In the process, it produces an extremely reactive form of oxygen that rips apart whatever proteins it happens to encounter. Basically, it destroys those proteins forever."