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THORIATE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "thoriate" is one way to...):
impregnate; saturate (infuse or fill completely)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
thorium (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)
