Definitions for thoriums

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thoriums tho·ri·um

Spelling: [thawr-ee-uh m, thohr-]

IPA: /ˈθɔr i əm, ˈθoʊr-/

Thoriums is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 323 anagrams from letters in thoriums (himorstu).

Definitions for thoriums

noun

1. a grayish-white, lustrous, somewhat ductile and malleable, radioactive metallic element present in monazite: used as a source of nuclear energy, as a coating on sun-lamp and vacuum-tube filament coatings, and in alloys. Symbol: Th; atomic weight: 232.038; atomic number: 90; specific gravity: 11.7.

Origin of thoriums

New Latin (1829); see Thor, -ium

Examples for thoriums

They would have to be mounted in thorium in order to keep them rigid.

They would be compared with a chunk of thorium of the same size.

A million bucks of thorium with a hundred years of life in it—have a heart, mister!

thorium and uranium, proportionality of, in older rocks, 26.

Similar phenomena were observed when radium was substituted for thorium.

They reached the peaks of thorium, and Rip looked them over.

A few feet away from the spot was a thick pyramid of thorium.

The substance ranking next in radio-activity to radium is thorium.

He was also the person who first identified silicon, selenium, thorium, and serium.

Emperor of all the metal molecules and king of the thorium spurs.