thorium

Questions about thorium

What does thorium mean?

thorium means "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".

How many syllables are in thorium?

thorium has 3 syllables: tho-ri-um. The stress falls on "tho". In IPA it is /ˈθɑɹiəm/.

What is another word for thorium?

Close synonyms include Th, atomic number 90. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thorium a common word?

thorium is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.