1. a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands; [syn: thorium, Th, atomic number 90]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
atomic number 90
n 1: a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic
element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear
reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands [syn:
thorium, Th, atomic number 90]