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Title: Thorium --looking for good sources of info
Post by: missmuss on May 25, 2004, 01:26:37 PM

Hi,
 I am doing an extra credit project on Thorium.  Right now I am just looking for some good sources of info, good web sites and the like.  Thanks

Title: Re:Thorium --looking for good sources of info
Post by: Corvettaholic on May 25, 2004, 01:49:43 PM

webelements.com? They usually have a lot of background info. You can start at our own periodic table, but I'm not sure how far scratch has gotten on it.

Title: Re:Thorium --looking for good sources of info
Post by: hmx9123 on May 26, 2004, 09:59:20 PM

Take a look at the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC) Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, any edition.  Under the 'elements' section there is a lot of general information about Thorium.  Also check the Merck Index for some references about it, and Cotton & Wilkinson's Advanced Inorganic Chemistry for some more advanced material.  Greenwood and Earnshaw's Chemistry of the Elements also has a pretty good background on it.