thorium series

American

noun

Chemistry.

the radioactive series that starts with thorium and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 208.

thorium series British

noun

a radioactive series that starts with thorium-232 and ends with lead-208

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They are the uranium series, the actinide series, and the thorium series.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Furthermore, in the thorium series 6 alpha particles are lost before reaching the end product, which again is perhaps the chemical analogue of lead.

From A Brief Account of Radio-activity by Venable, Francis Preston

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