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Definition of: thoria
(thôr′ē·ə, thō′·rē·ə) noun
A white, very heavy oxide of thorium, ThO2, used with zirconia and other earths in the mantle of Welsbach's incandescent lamp. [<NL <thorium THORIUM]
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