Definition & Meaning | English word THORIANITE
THORIANITE
Definitions of THORIANITE
- (mineral) A radioactive mineral containing thorium dioxide (ThO2) plus oxides of uranium, lanthanum, cerium neodymium and praseodymium in smaller quantities.
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using THORIANITE in a Sentence
- solubility of the host mineral within nascent hydrothermal solutions in the source rocks, for example mineral salts (halite), carbonates (cerussite), phosphates (monazite and thorianite), and sulfates (barite).
- bastnasite, thorite, uranothorite and thorianite in the Desmont mine, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada; and with pyrochlore, tienshanite, sogdianite, thorite, caesium kupletskite, reedmergnerite, steacyite, pectolite and quartz in the Tajikistan deposit.
- Here, with Dunstan, thorianite from Ceylon was described as a new mineral and he published papers on baddeleyite and zirkelite from Ceylon and carnotite from South Australia.
- It operated initially with domestic ores, but de Lisle, confronted with the scarcity of such ores, eventually began to import a wide variety of ores including pitchblende, pyromorphite, and thorianite from foreign markets including Hungary, Canada and the United States.
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