How to Use thorium in a Sentence

thorium

noun

• The older a flowstone gets, the more thorium builds up inside it.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• And most of that thorium had never been used at Fernald.
  — cincinnati.com, 28 Jan. 2020
• The uranium-thorium system acts like a clock that starts when the tufa is formed.
  — Benjamin Schoville, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2021
• For one thing, the mantles used in camp lanterns at the time contained small amounts of the radioactive element thorium.
  — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• One lab tested the ratio of uranium to thorium in two of Misliya-1’s incisors.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2018
• Kaltofen, through the course of his study, found three of the highest levels of thorium radioactivity in the dust of three Hanford workers’ homes.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2018
• But not all researchers agree that uranium-thorium dates are valid.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
• By comparing the ratios of uranium and thorium present in the bone, scientists can tell its age.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2018
• But thorium couldn't produce anywhere near the energy the Orville would require.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2018
• Soil contains an average of around 6 parts per million (ppm) of thorium.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
• But a thorium plant would be different than the plants with which Americans are familiar.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
• In the core, the radioactive thorium heats the molten salt, which turns water into steam and activates a turbine to make electricity.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 3 June 2022
• Searches had been made about how to poison a well and about uranium thorium fusion bombs, the search warrant affidavit said.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
• Next the team reached out to geochronologist James Paces, who retried the now much-improved uranium-thorium dating technique on the bones.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Technology like thorium fuel is still far from ready for the market.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
• Memmott is studying thorium salt as an energy source at a remote lab in Emery County.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
• The now-defunct company disposed of thorium waste on its property and into the Queens sewer.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2017
• But thorium would play an important role in Rona’s later career.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• The study uses a total of six methods, including measuring the levels of uranium and thorium in layers of stone that have formed over the fossils.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
• Below is a video of the moment, with fan music added in, and also the entire video of Hoglund discussing thorium, nuclear power and molten salt reactors.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2022
• Unlike the uranium, the thorium isn't water-soluble and can only get into the rock via decay.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2019
• The latest result confirms that radium isotopes should be a good place to look for electric dipoles, and that some isotopes of thorium and uranium might be even better.
  — Stephen Battersby, Scientific American, 10 May 2013
• The date is determined by measuring the ratio of uranium to thorium, which changes over time as a result of radioactive decay.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
• The problem was that scientists usually needed big chunks to find enough uranium and thorium to measure.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• When tufa forms, uranium is ‘locked’ into the crystal structure and begins to decay to produce thorium.
  — Benjamin Schoville, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2021
• The researchers used a method called uranium-series dating, which measures the ratio of uranium to thorium in a bone or sediment sample.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2019
• Nuclear power plants in the United States were designed to use other fuels, and converting them to use thorium would be very expensive.
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• Any thorium or uranium in the sample then combined with the oxygen to form molecules massive enough to stand out in spectrometer data.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
• So, the researchers looked at uranium-thorium isotopes in a stalagmite that had become encrusted in the woman's finger bones.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2020
• Over the course of eons, uranium gradually breaks down into thorium.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024