Thoria Definition

Thoria Sentence Examples

• Much the best practical source of helium is thorianite, a mineral imported from Ceylon for the manufacture of thoria.

• It may be obtained as jet black octahedra (isomorphous with thoria) by fusion with borax.

• The name thoria (after the Scandinavian god Thor) was first given in 1815 by Berzelius to a supposed new earth which he had extracted from several rare Swedish minerals.

• In 1828 he gave the name thoria to an earth which he extracted from a mineral found at Lerdn.

• Thorium chloride, ThC1 4, is obtained as white shining crystals by heating a mixture of carbon and thoria in a current of chlorine.