thoruranium

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

modelled on actino-uranium (the uranium parent of actinium), as it was the hypothetical uranium parent of thorium

Noun[edit]

thoruranium (uncountable)

  1. (rare, dated) Uranium-236.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Trenn, Thaddeus J. (1978) “Thoruranium (U-236) as the extinct natural parent of thorium: The premature falsification of an essentially correct theory”, in Annals of Science, volume 35, number 6, →DOI, pages 581–97
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