Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A radioactive isotope of radon, Rn-220, having a half-life of 54.5 seconds and produced by the disintegration of thorium.
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- noun
Thorin .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fallout from these, particularly decay products of the gaseous thoron, were what the cleanup crews detected - not a nuclear reaction involving neutrons.
Archive 2003-09-01 Ray Girvan 2003
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Fallout from these, particularly decay products of the gaseous thoron, were what the cleanup crews detected - not a nuclear reaction involving neutrons.
Dangerous science Ray Girvan 2003
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Firing a thoron pistol into the chests of unarmed men from point-blank range.
Distant Shores Edited by Marco Palmieri 2005
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Firing a thoron pistol into the chests of unarmed men from point-blank range.
Distant Shores Edited by Marco Palmieri 2005
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Firing a thoron pistol into the chests of unarmed men from point-blank range.
Distant Shores Edited by Marco Palmieri 2005
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“Yes, Captain, a thoron radiation pulse drove the foreign organism out of your brains.”
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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Can their brains absorb that much thoron radiation?
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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Kes said, “We were able to kill it using the thoron radiation.”
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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Can their brains absorb that much thoron radiation?
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
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Kes said, “We were able to kill it using the thoron radiation.”
Flashback Brannon Braga 1996
knitandpurl commented on the word thoron
"Orbs of phosphor throw off bolts of hot volts (googols of bosons from photoprotons of thoron)."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 75
May 22, 2010