THORIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thoriate mean? 

• THORIATE (verb)
  The verb THORIATE has 1 sense:

1. impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission

  Familiarity information: THORIATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THORIATE (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)