Thorium is a solid, natural, radioactive metal.
Common compounds of thorium: thorium dioxide, thorium trifluoride, thorium tetrafluoride, thorium tetrachloride, thorium triiodide, thorium diiodide, thorium tetraiodide, thorium nitrate, thorium oxalate, thorium carbide, thorium sulfides, thorium nitride, thorium oxinate, etc.
Jakob Berzelius did not discover thorium; it was discovered by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius in 1828. Berzelius isolated thorium by heating a sample of the mineral thorite with potassium hydroxide and then treating it with hydrofluoric acid.
The chemical symbol of thorium is Th.
232Th has 142 neutrons and 90 protons and electrons.
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Thorium is an inner transition element, which means it is a metal.
K. W. Terry has written: 'Retention and excretion of thorium by mineral sands industry employees' -- subject(s): Excretion, Health aspects, Health aspects of Mineral industries, Mineral industries, Thorium, Toxicology
Thorium is mainly found in India.
Thorium is extracted from minerals as monazite, thorianite, thorite, the mineral is grounded, dissolved in nitric acid, thorium is extracted with tributylphosphate. Also other methods exist.Pure thorium is obtained from ThO2 by a calciothermic process, from ThI2 by thermal decomposition or from ThF4 by electrolysis.
Like all metals except for mercury thorium's standard state is solid.
Kerala, a state in southern India, is known to have the world's largest deposit of thorium. Its monazite sands contain significant amounts of thorium, a valuable radioactive mineral used in nuclear technology.
Thorium is typically found only in dark-colored heavy-mineral sands. Mineral bearing sand is classified by specific gravity as either light or heavy, with heavy mineral sands having a specific gravity of greater than 2.9. Many of the heavy mineral sands are dark colored and include ilmenite, rutile, magnetite, sphene, and garnet. Thorium is found primarily in the heavy mineral. monazite, which is ofter yellowish-brown or greenish- brown. A minor amount of thorium may also be in the heavy mineral, zircon, which is often white of yellowish in color. Because monazite and zircon are heavy minerals and are generally less abundant than ilmenite in a deposit, they are typically found in the zones of dark or black colored minerals. It is possible for thorium-bearing minerals to be distributed throughout a light-colored sand.
Examples: - thorianite: oxides group - thorite: silicates group - monazite: phosphates group
Common compounds of thorium: thorium dioxide, thorium trifluoride, thorium tetrafluoride, thorium tetrachloride, thorium triiodide, thorium diiodide, thorium tetraiodide, thorium nitrate, thorium oxalate, thorium carbide, thorium sulfides, thorium nitride, thorium oxinate, etc.
Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius analyzed a mineral from the Falun district in 1815 and determined that it contained a new element, which he named thorium after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.
Radium has not its own minerals; radium exist in extremely low concentrations in uranium and thorium ores.