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
Type | Words |
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Synonyms | atomic number 90, th |
Type of | metal, metallic element |
Has types | radiothorium, thorium-228 |
Derivation | thoriate |
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