Finnish Meaning of thorium

torium

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thorium (n)

a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands

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thorium (n.)

A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0.

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torium

a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sand

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thorite => Toriitti, thoric => rintakehän, thoriated => | toriumkäsitelty |, thoriate => Toriatti, thoria => Toriumoksidi,