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thoriates

thoriates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thoriate.

Meaning of thoriate

Verb

thoriate (third-person singular simple present thoriates, present participle thoriating, simple past and past participle thoriated)

  1. (transitive) To add thorium or thorium oxide to (a substance) in order to increase its thermionic flow.
    • One must thoriate the filament in order for it to be effective.

Questions about thoriates

What is thoriates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Thoriates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thoriate.

Words near thoriates in the dictionary

  1. thorianite
  2. thorianites
  3. thorias
  4. thoriate
  5. thoriated
  6. thoriates
  7. thoriating
  8. thoric
  9. thoriferous
  10. thorikosite
  11. thorin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thoriates (page history and authors); thoriate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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