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  • Thumbnail for Thorium
    Thorium is a chemical element; it has the symbol Th and atomic number 90. Thorium is a weakly radioactive light silver metal which tarnishes olive gray...
    137 KB (16,017 words) - 03:15, 10 November 2024
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    Decay chain (redirect from Thorium series)
    chain of thorium-232 is commonly called the "thorium series" or "thorium cascade". Beginning with naturally occurring thorium-232, this series includes...
    46 KB (3,963 words) - 09:53, 23 October 2024
  • Thorium (90Th) has seven naturally occurring isotopes but none are stable. One isotope, 232Th, is relatively stable, with a half-life of 1.405×1010 years...
    51 KB (5,002 words) - 20:13, 12 November 2024
  • Thorium-232 (232 Th ) is the main naturally occurring isotope of thorium, with a relative abundance of 99.98%. It has a half life of 14 billion years,...
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    element thorium. A thorium fuel cycle can offer several potential advantages over a uranium fuel cycle—including the much greater abundance of thorium found...
    78 KB (7,897 words) - 22:28, 9 November 2024
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    The thorium fuel cycle is a nuclear fuel cycle that uses an isotope of thorium, 232 Th , as the fertile material. In the reactor, 232 Th is transmuted...
    38 KB (3,801 words) - 20:28, 12 May 2024
  • Uranium–thorium dating, also called thorium-230 dating, uranium-series disequilibrium dating or uranium-series dating, is a radiometric dating technique...
    10 KB (1,180 words) - 20:32, 12 May 2024
  • an intermediate step in the decay chain of 232Th, also known as the thorium series, which eventually decays into stable 208Pb. Radon was discovered in...
    132 KB (14,580 words) - 13:47, 4 November 2024
  • Actinide (redirect from Actinide series)
    the radioactive thorium series formed by the decay of 228Ra; it is a β− emitter with a half-life of 6.15 hours. In one tonne of thorium there is 5×10−8...
    130 KB (11,599 words) - 02:19, 29 October 2024
  • the uranium series (or radium series), the actinium series, and the thorium series, respectively; a fourth decay chain, the neptunium series, terminates...
    34 KB (1,767 words) - 12:18, 10 October 2024
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    Many compounds of thorium are known: this is because thorium and uranium are the most stable and accessible actinides and are the only actinides that can...
    35 KB (4,162 words) - 21:26, 28 April 2024
  • which he claimed to have isolated as the thorium series equivalent of radium F (polonium-210) in the radium series. The properties he reported for dakin...
    82 KB (9,310 words) - 13:45, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Liquid fluoride thorium reactor
    The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based...
    116 KB (14,400 words) - 15:27, 2 September 2024
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    that the decay series of thorium was not understood, which led to incorrect results for samples that contained both uranium and thorium. However, his calculations...
    45 KB (5,455 words) - 05:17, 28 August 2024
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    and thorium reserves found in the monazite sands of coastal regions of South India. The ultimate focus of the programme is on enabling the thorium reserves...
    76 KB (7,820 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2024
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    Reactor Experiment (MSRE) aimed to demonstrate a nuclear power plant using a thorium fuel cycle in a breeder reactor. Increased research into Generation IV...
    79 KB (9,080 words) - 04:29, 14 November 2024
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    reactor or an Advanced nuclear power system involves a self-sustaining series of thorium-232–uranium-233 fuelled reactors. This would be a thermal breeder...
    66 KB (7,534 words) - 18:02, 25 September 2024
  • component: Potassium : Gamma ray energy 1.46 MeV Thorium series: Gamma ray energy 2.61 MeV Uranium-Radium series: Gamma ray energy 1.76 MeV Another example...
    7 KB (869 words) - 23:12, 4 December 2022
  • Unbibium (redirect from Eka-Thorium)
    Unbibium, also known as element 122 or eka-thorium, is a hypothetical chemical element; it has placeholder symbol Ubb and atomic number 122. Unbibium...
    37 KB (7,066 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2024
  • (decay product of thorium-230 in decay chain of uranium-238) and radon-222 (a decay product of radium-226 in said chain). Thorium and uranium (and their...
    53 KB (5,718 words) - 11:33, 17 August 2024
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