Thorium

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Located in the 90th place on the periodic table is the element Thorium. Thorium, as with every element, has unique properties, making it useful in certain applications. However, Thorium’s best days might still be ahead of it and might move it to the front of the list of the world’s most important elements. Learn more about Thorium, how it was discovered, and its potential uses on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Located in the 90th place on the periodic table is the element thorium.
0:05.0	Thorium, as with every element, has unique properties, making it useful in certain applications.
0:10.0	However, Thorium's best days still might be ahead of it,
0:13.0	and it might move itself to the front of the list of the world's most important elements.
0:17.7	Learn more about Thorium, how it was discovered, and its potential uses,
0:21.6	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The story of Thorium begins in 1815 at the Falun Copper Mine in Sweden.
0:45.0	Falun at the time was the most productive copper mine in the world and copper from the
0:48.7	mine had been the single biggest export from Sweden over the previous several centuries.
0:53.0	A previously unknown mineral had been discovered, and it was given to the chemist
0:57.0	Johns Jacob Brasilius to determine what it was.
1:00.0	Brasilius had previously discovered the elements
1:02.5	Serium and Selenium.
1:04.6	After analyzing the substance in 1817,
1:07.4	he determined that he had once again discovered a new element.
1:10.5	He called the new element Thorium
1:12.3	after the ancient Norse god of thunder Thor.
1:15.0	However, Brizilius got it wrong. It wasn't a new element, it was actually Yitreum orthophosphate.
1:21.0	Fast forward to 1828, an amateur Norwegian mineral
1:25.3	by the name of Morton Thron-Smark found an unusual mineral in Telemark Norway.
1:29.9	He sent it to his father who was a professor of geology.
1:33.0	He couldn't figure out what it was, so he sent it to Brasilius.
1:37.0	Brasilius analyzed the substance and concluded that this was in fact a new element,
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