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Meanings of thorium in English

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торий
Portuguese
elemento 90
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tori
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Chemical element with the atomic number of 90.

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Usage of thorium in English
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Uranium certainly is; thorium-thestuff of this incandescent gas mantle-certainlyis; actinium.
The World Set Free
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Cracking can also result in byproducts like tantallum, zirconium or radioactive thorium.
Reuters
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Emperor of all the metal molecules and king of the thorium spurs.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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And unlike uranium, thorium's by-products cannot be made into a nuclear bomb.
BBC
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No, she told me, because thorium reactors are not a proven technology.
The Guardian
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The BBC's Roger Harrabin reports from a thorium test-site in southern Norway.
BBC
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It wasn't practical to take the thorium rock in for a landing.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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Two active deposits, thorium A and B, arise successively from the emanation.
Darwin and Modern Science
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Rip saw a few low pyramids of thorium a few rods away.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
10
But when mixed with fine carbon, thorium alpha contamination makes a mess.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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There are a number of different ways to use thorium to produce electricity.
The Guardian
12
China's new program is the largest national thorium-MSR initiative to date.
Wired
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A somewhat similar pedigree has been made out in the case of thorium.
Darwin and Modern Science
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This asteroid might have been a pocket of pure thorium in the planet.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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Moving toward a thorium fuel cycle has a lot of unknowns.
Wired
16
After the fission events, the thorium would absorb a neutron and become thorium-233.
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