Crossword-Solution: THORIUM
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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. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “THORIUM”
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| Element #90 | 1 answer |
| Element in vacuum tube filaments | 1 answer |
| Element number 90 | 1 answer |
| Metal that's an effective radiation shield | 1 answer |
| Radioactive element no. 90. | 1 answer |
| a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element | 1 answer |
| radioactive metallic element | 3 answers |
| URANINITE, constituent of | 4 answers |
| PITCHBLENDE, constituent of | 5 answers |
| A COLORLESS ODORLESS GASEOUS ELEMENT THAT GIVE A RED GLOW IN A VACUUM TUBE | 10 answers |
| COVERED WITH DENSE COTTONY HAIRS OR HAIRLIKE FILAMENTS | 10 answers |
| radioactive element | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with THORIUM (5)
Further investigation demonstrated conclusively that the bit drops were due to alpha particle emissions from thorium (and to a much lesser degree uranium) in the encapsulation material.
That’s quap! It’s a festering mass of earths and heavy metals, polonium, radium, ythorium, thorium, carium, and new things, too.
What were the limits of the gas-mantle trade? How much thorium, not to speak of cerium, could they take at a maximum.
Rutherford, then of Montreal, discovered that the radiation from uranium, thorium and radium was complex.
Thus by chemical reactions it is possible to separate from uranium and thorium minute quantities of radio-active materials to which the names of uranium-X and thorium-X have been given.
Quotes with THORIUM (1)
Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1948–2009).