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Thorium (symbol: Th) is a member of the actinoid series of chemical elements. Although all isotopes of thorium are unstable, thorium-232 has a sufficiently long half-life (14 billion years) that a substantial amount of primordial thorium has survived since the formation of the Solar System. The natural material is only very slightly radioactive, and thorium and its compounds have a number of commercial uses, although some precautions must be taken over its decay products.
Thorium was identified as a new element in 1828, and named after Thor, the Norse god of strength. Its chemistry resembles that of zirconium and hafnium, with a preponderance of the +4 oxidation state, and periodic tables from before the Second World War often placed thorium as a transition metal.[9]
Contents
Discovery and history
Thorium was first identified in a sample of a new mineral (now called thorite) from the island of Løvøy in Vestfold, Norway. The sample was collected by the Lutheran pastor and amateur mineralogist Hans Morten Thrane Esmark; unable to identify it, he sent it to Christiana (modern-day Oslo) where his father Jens Esmark was professor of mineralogy and geology at the university. When Esmark Sr. had no more success than his son, he passed the sample on to the reknowned Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who correctly ascertained that the mineral contained a new chemical element.[10][11]
Thorium remained something of a curiosity until the invention of the incandescent gas mantle in 1885 by Carl Auer von Welsbach. The cover of thorium dioxide (with 1% cerium dioxide) over and around the gas flame increased the light output tenfold through candoluminescence, and led to a huge expansion of public lighting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.[12]
Occurance and extraction
Notes and references
Notes
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wickleder, Mathias S.; Fourest, Blandine; Dorhout, Peter K. Thorium. In The Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements, 3rd ed.; Morss, Lester R.; Edelstein, Norman M.; Fuger, Jean, Eds.; Springer: Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2006; Vol. 1, Chapter 3, pp 52–160. doi:10.1007/1-4020-3598-5_3, <http://radchem.nevada.edu/classes/rdch710/files/thorium.pdf>.
- ↑ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, A. Chemistry of the Elements; Pergamon: Oxford, 1984; pp 1450–86. ISBN 0-08-022057-6.
- ↑ Pauling, Linus The Nature of the Chemical Bond, 3rd ed.; Ithaca, NY, 1960; pp 88–95. ISBN 0-8014-0333-2.
- ↑ Köhler, S.; Deißenberger, R.; Eberhardt, K.; Erdmann, N.; Herrmann; Huber, G.; Kratz, J. V.; Nunnemann, M., et al. Determination of the first ionization potential of actinide elements by resonance ionization mass spectroscopy. Spectrochim. Acta, Part B 1997, 52 (6), 717–26. DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(96)01670-9.
- ↑ Moore, Charlotte E. Ionization potentials and ionization limits derived from the analyses of optical spectra. Natl. Stand. Ref. Data Ser., (U.S. Natl. Bur. Stand.) 1970, 34, 1–22, <http://www.nist.gov/data/nsrds/NSRDS-NBS34.pdf>.
- ↑ Cordero, Beatriz; Gómez, Verónica; Platero-Prats, Ana E.; Revés, Marc; Echeverría, Jorge; Cremades, Eduard; Barragán, Flavia; Alvarez, Santiago Covalent radii revisited. Dalton Trans. 2008 (5), 2832–38. DOI: 10.1039/b801115j.
- ↑ Shannon, R. D. Revised effective ionic radii and systematic studies of interatomic distances in halids and chalcogenides. Acta Crystallogr. A 1976, 32 (5), 751–67. DOI: 10.1107/S0567739476001551.
- ↑ Thorium. In NIST Chemistry WebBook; National Institute for Standards and Technology, <http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/inchi/InChI%3D1S/Th>. (accessed 10 January 2011).
- ↑ Thorium. In Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.; University Press: Cambridge, 1911; Vol. 26, pp 878–79.
- ↑ Berzelius, J. J. Ueber den Thorit, ein neues Mineral, und eine darin enthaltene neue Erde, die Thorerde. Ann. Phys. Chem. 1829, 91 (4), 633–34. DOI: 10.1002/andp.18290910412.
- ↑ Berzelius, J. J. Undersökning af ett nytt mineral (Thorit), som innehåller en förut obekant jord. K. Sven. Vetenskapsakad. Handl. 1829, 9, 1–30; Untersuchung eines neuen Minerals und einer darin enthaltenen zuvor unbekannten Erde. Ann. Phys. Chem. 1829, 92 (7), 385–415. DOI: 10.1002/andp.18290920702.
- ↑ Lewes, Vivian Byam Lighting, Gas. In Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.; University Press: Cambridge, 1911; Vol. 16, pp 655–59.
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